Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 04:06:15 +0000
Reply-To: joe trussell <vanagongl@HOTMAIL.COM>
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From: joe trussell <vanagongl@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Just got another vanagon...
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Hi all,
I found an '85 Westfalia out at an auto auction here in Denver. After
chasing the thing around for two straight weeks, I ended up not being able
to get it. It was orginally donated, I thought I had it for $2500, but it
finally ended up at a dealer auction. The donation people gave me a bit of
runaround on it...
To make a long story short, I again had the bug and wanted a new Vanagon.
Found this one on Ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4523558345
One owner, belonged to a farmer in kansas. The dealership in Concordia were
some of the nicest people I've ever dealt with; they brought it to me on a
trailer last Friday. I'd put down a deposit, half of which I could have
kept if I didn't like the thing, so I felt like it was an okay deal. It was
an impulse buy. According to my wife, I'm lucky I'm not living in it now.
It was nervewracking, basically buying it sight unseen, and I don't think
i'll do it again, although thus far I'm happy with my purchase.
Instead of zip-ties or clips or anything of the sort, the farmer used
bayling twine pretty much any time anything broke, from coolant lines
underneath to tying back spark plug wires to replacing the cords that hold
the glove box up.
It had rusted AC Delco plugs, bad wires, cap, rotor, Fram oil filter, bad
AFM (the idle was all over the place,) and the coolant light won't stop
blinking, but the transmission shifts smoothly, the engine seems to run
well, there's no body rust, the A/C actually works and blows cold, the
interior is perfect until it begins to shred (as I've found from the
archives it will eventually do,) and it had one owner who apparently cared
for it quite a bit. It's even got the original radio, which obviously needs
replacing.
I just thought I'd share the news, hope all is well with y'all. I'm sure
I'll be begging for help as soon as this one's idiosyncracies start to
reveal themselves...
My Capri Blue '85 GL will be up for sale for much, much less than it's worth
to me in about a week. I'll have more details and will post some pics soon,
so p-mail me if you're interested.
It has new tires, retro-fitted manual rack (with big steering wheel,) CD
player, new front blower motor, rear heater, water pump, all CV joints, very
straight body, no rust, fold-down rear bed, home sewn matching curtains, no
interior rips, chrome wolfsburg wheelcovers, and bunch of other stuff I'm
probably forgetting.
Joe T.
'85 GL 'action van'
'85 Wolfsberg Westfalia
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