Date:         Mon, 4 Feb 2002 10:16:27 -0700
Reply-To:     Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
Subject:      Re: Odds and Ends-Before the crusher
Comments: To: Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>

Used to be that if you wanted, you could get in to the local ball games free
after the 3rd or 4th inning.  They finally figured out that no one was
showing up for the first third of the game.

Probably pretty much the same philosophy on this.

Karl

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Grebneff" <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 4:24 AM
Subject: Re: Odds and Ends-Before the crusher


> >I've been buying doo, dads and gizoms from about seven wrecking yards for
> >five years.
> >There are just a lot of Vanagon parts that seldom need replacing so I
> >don't buy them as spares.
> >I've offered to buy bulk from these yards at a cheap price if they'll cut
> >me a deal a couple of days before they start crushing.
> >I think I offended them because they never call to extend such an offer.
> >With the last batch that went to the crusher from three of the yards
> >there were five 80-83 Air cooled, ten 83-91 Water Cooled and about twenty
> >pre 1980 vans, thirty bugs, beetles that all went to the mill.
> >Apparently I don't think like a wrecking yard owner but it seems a waste
> >when they know I'd buy a few hundred dollars worth of plastic, glass,
> >carpets, seats, door panels that have no crushed value at all.
>
> This is not uncommon. Out of spite, these people would rather lose
> entirely than let you have it cheap. The Ashburton (NZ) wrecker had a
> surplus of Subarus, including turbo Legacys, and they crushed them
> complete (none were at all rusty) rather than sell them cheaply!
> --
> Andrew Grebneff
> 165 Evans St, Dunedin 9001, New Zealand
> <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
> Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut
> Friends don't let friends do Windows
>