Date:         Mon, 14 Feb 2005 20:49:25 -0800
Reply-To:     Robert Fisher <refisher@MCHSI.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Robert Fisher <refisher@MCHSI.COM>
Subject:      Re: Just got another vanagon...
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Congratulations, and good luck with it, and the wife as well. Looks nice.
You're probably lucky the farmer didn't use barbed wire instead of bailing
twine, eh? : )

Cya,
Robert

----- Original Message -----
From: "joe trussell" <vanagongl@HOTMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 8:06 PM
Subject: Just got another vanagon...


> 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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