86 Vw Cabriolet Letting Her Go, No Reserve. Was Daughter's Car. New Top on 2040-cars
Concord, North Carolina, United States
Overall, pretty darn good shape. Heat and a/c worked last time drove it. Had a top notch convertible top guy hand install a new top - some minor separation at seem at rear right but still watertight. Probably the coolest little convertible out there. The top folds down on top of there the tiny trunk is. There is nothing separating trunk area from bottom of the convertible top, done on purpose so that you could reach back into the trunk area from the seat.
It is my opinion, after fixing or repairing or replacing darn near everything on this vehicle, that the reason it starts with a new battery, runs like a champ and then won't restart for a while if you park it is that there is an electrical issue - probably, again a guess, a parasitic ground. The interior is pretty much original I think so its worn out but not ugly. The paint is in good shape and I don't see any rust. I have replaced with new when could, used when couldn't - master cylinders, brakes, tires, top, blower, starter, ignition, etc (think of something expensive, add it to the list, lol). Hope it finds a good home. |
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BMW, Ferrari, VW cars use tungsten mined by terrorists
Thu, 08 Aug 2013Bloomberg Markets is reporting that BMW, Volkswagen and Ferrari have been using tungsten ore sourced from Columbia's FARC rebel terrorists. The extensive story focuses on Columbia's illegal mining trade and calls into question the provenance of the rare ore that is used not only in crankshaft parts production, but is also found in the world's computing and telecommunications industry for use in screens.
The ore is mined by the FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, or Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - People's Army), and exported to Pennsylvania, where it is refined. The refined ore is then sent over to Austria, where a company called Plansee turns it into a finished product. Now, it's important to note that we aren't talking about the world's supply of tungsten here. In 2012, Plansee's American refinery purchased 93.2 metric tons of tungsten, valued at $1.8 million. That's peanuts, with the entire Colombian tungsten mining industry producing just one percent of the world's supplies.
That doesn't make indirectly supporting FARC any more acceptable, though. BMW, VW and Ferrari are all committed to not accepting mineral supplies from the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is also in the grips of a guerrilla insurrection funded, in part, by illegal mining. The same commitment would figure to extend to Colombian mining, but as BMW points out, it's difficult for a multi-national manufacturer to know where every item in its supply chain comes from. A company spokesperson says as much, telling Bloomberg, "These few grams out of the billions of tons of raw materials passing through the BMW supply chain are of no practical relevance."
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