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Date:         Fri, 3 Aug 2001 21:31:32 -0700
Reply-To:     Aristotle Sagan <killer_jupiter@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Aristotle Sagan <killer_jupiter@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Vanagon prices
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$500 bucks. You'll put about $1500 into it and have a nice van for a couple grand.

Never get over generous, you still don't know what you are going to find down the road. The van I purchased two years ago had the heads done 7,000 previously. They still leak. Well, I suspect they do as that engine is sitting in a storage locker. Replaced with a $1000 used engine.

Do I regret it? Nope, still love driving it.

tim o'brien

>From: Anthony Bailey <abailey@MAC.COM> >Reply-To: Anthony Bailey <abailey@MAC.COM> >To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM >Subject: Vanagon prices >Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 21:13:18 -0500 > >Hello All, I looked at a Vanagon tonight (southeast missouri, not >exactly the vw hotspot of the world, nor anywhere close to it) and >just got off the phone with the owner, he wasn't there where the van >was at, its at a repair shop and the mechanic "don't do no >watercooled vehicles" (his words more or less). > >Anyhow, its an '85 7 passenger with (according to the owner) a good >engine (as they just did the heads on it as someone told them that >the heads were leaking and pushing coolant out the expansion tank so >they put new heads on it). They went thru the cooling system, new >hoses, tanks, etc.. The body looks good, but has a dent in the >sliding door and is a little scratched up in places. > >Now the bad news, they had problems with the automatic transmission >so the owner took it to a transmission place and they worked on the >tranny. Then the transmission started leaking again so the shop they >took it to this time said its the seal between the tranny and >transaxle and that its probably ruined the both of them. The owner >had it towed to its current resting place until he can figure out >what to do with it (the mechanic there only works on beetles). > >He said to just make him an offer as he's tired of putting money into >it especially since its his son's vehicle and he's wanting something >more powerful. I don't want to pay a bunch for this, nor can I afford >to. But I don't want to get stuck with an expensive van that I'm >going to have to put a bunch of money into it also. Nor do I want to >make him upset at me either by offering a bottom dollar price. > >Any ideas what to offer? >Thanks, Tony >----- >Sent from Anthony Bailey KC0HZP (mailto: abailey@mac.com) >on a PowerComputing PowerBase 180 in Marble Hill, Missouri

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