Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 07:55:47 -0500
Reply-To: Greg Potts <Greg@POTTSFAMILY.CA>
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From: Greg Potts <Greg@POTTSFAMILY.CA>
Subject: Re: Just got another vanagon...
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Hi Joe,
This past weekend my wife mentioned she had seen a vanagon for sale
while out on her school bus route. So I followed up the lead on Sunday
and had a look... It was a 1988 8-passenger model with over 300,000 KM,
deep seam rust, a bad tranny and a seized engine. But the price was
good so I'm probably buying it anyway, because the interior is good and
it's sitting on 4 very near new michelins. Dad can use the glass and
other fittings for his fleet.
Speaking of Dad, he's near Sarasota FL this week and has an oil leak in
his 82 Vanagon westy . If anyone can recommend a good shop it would be
appreciated. On the way home he has two waterboxers to look into...
one's a westy and the other an 8-passenger. He and mom *love* their 82
but would prefer to have something with AC, PS, AT and heat.
Happy trails,
Greg Potts
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1973/74/79 Westfakia Conversion **Bob the Tomato** LY3H
1977 Sunroof Automatic L63H/L90D
Dad currently has three vanagons and a 75 bay westy.
http://www.pottsfamily.ca/westfakia
http://www.busesofthecorn.com
On 14-Feb-05, at 11:06 PM, joe trussell wrote:
> 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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