Date:         Sun, 1 Dec 2002 09:23:02 -0600
Reply-To:     Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Beetle Barn Update ( I-70 & I-77 Cambridge Ohio)
Comments: To: vgonman@MSN.COM
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I asked for a seat out of a 76 bus.....he showed me
one, and wanted 470 for it....well, since I paid $150 for the WHOLE BUS,
could not see doing that..................
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I've got about seven sources for Bus and Vanagon parts.
Over the last 8 years I've spent lots and lots of money buying parts,
enough to be on a first name basis with most of my wrecking yard owners.
I've been offered the whole bus many times and although this is a
temptation I'd rather pay three times that amount over two years buying
parts from that single bus.
There isn't much market in the Dallas / Fort Worth area for Vanagon or
bus parts so the yard owners aren't adding any new Vanagon / Bus
inventory. It goes to the contrary as they are just dumping their current
inventory into the crusher pile with no plans of buying new inventory
offered to them.
One yard owner offered me a 100 x 100 ft fenced area for $100.00 a month
as a place for my private inventory and said he'd start buying available
Busses and Vanagons and putting them in the space and discount the towing
price for anything I acquired. Adding in the tow / delivery charges to
the monthly rental and it works out to me being very charitable since I'd
be paying him a profit and the delivery charges to get the busses placed
in 'my area'. Even owning the inventory I'd in effect be working for him
since I just don't have any consistent volume in my parts sales. He'd be
getting most of the money and I'd continue to do all of the work.
What's a fellow to do?

Stan Wilder

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