Date:         Fri, 1 Feb 2002 23:48:50 -0600
Reply-To:     Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject:      Re: VW Parts Availability in the Future?
Comments: To: CTONLINE@WEBTV.NET
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Finally all of these aircooled Vanagon parts I've been storing might be
worth something.
Looking for 80-81 Westfalia rust free body, must have very good body but
engine/tranny/axles/injection/alternator/starter/sheet
metal/exhaust/heater boxes can be gone.
I'm in Dallas TX and will drive 500 miles to pick it up.

Stan Wilder

On Fri, 1 Feb 2002 23:25:39 -0600 "Terry K." <CTONLINE@WEBTV.NET> writes:
> In my youth I was the parts mgr. at a motorcycle shop, which sold
> English, as well as Spanish, and Japanese Bikes.
>
> Pretty much rule of thumb, was the Brit bikes, most of everthing
> was
> interchangable, and everthing except sheet metal, was availble for
> more
> than 10 years.
> Now the Land of the Rising Sun and the Spanish bikes, were short
> term on
> the aviailability factor---Bultaco, because they just didn't have
> the
> finaces to have a large warehouse network, and the Yamaha, and
> Bridgestone's, becase they had so many different models, they
> became
> obsolete, as soon as they were sold, almost.
>
> Allot of the stuff was interchangable as far as engine, and
> electrical
> stuff, but the rest of it was almost imposible to get after, a
> couple of
> years.
>
> I know VW is elimating inventory, or letting it deplete on the Bus
> and
> the Vanagon stuff--as soon as the stock runs out--finito--on the
> parts.
>
> They are making room for the new iventory for later model parts.
>
> Andall this reliable info came from my buddy the parts mgr. at my
> local
> VW dealer.
>
> And now yo know the rest of the story----
>
> Later,
>
>             ______________
>            |[  ] [  ] [ ]\
>            |    |    |    |
>      ~~~ ~||-(())----(())-|
>
> Terry--
>
>        "Zoom, Zoom, Zoom"
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
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