Date:         Fri, 1 Feb 2002 23:25:39 -0600
Reply-To:     "Terry K." <CTONLINE@WEBTV.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         "Terry K." <CTONLINE@WEBTV.NET>
Subject:      Re: VW Parts Availability in the Future?
Comments: To: JM060356@AOL.COM
In-Reply-To:  Jim Morgan <JM060356@AOL.COM>'s message of Fri, 1 Feb 2002
              23:21:03 EST
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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,

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