Date:         Thu, 11 May 2006 14:11:34 -0700
Reply-To:     Aristotle Sagan <killer.jupiter@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Aristotle Sagan <killer.jupiter@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: '87 Westfalia on Boston's Craigslist
Comments: To: John Bange <jbange@gmail.com>
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Bee-ing from California, that's sicko. I gots an 81 with no rust. Of course
it's air cooled and primarily holds down the pavement out back. It makes a
great storage shed for yard tools.

tim

On 5/11/06, John Bange <jbange@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/11/06, J Tassone <jtassone@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Here's the link...
> >
> > http://boston.craigslist.org/car/159173155.html
> >
> > It needs some work.
>
>
> Yeah, I'll say. I notice a little paint bubbling around the outlets and at
> the seams. As one memorable vanagon listing on ebay once said, "this is
> normal" ;)
>
> "spare is one of the original tires, hardly used."
>
> Man, if it's one of the factory Conti's, at this point it's not so much a
> "spare" as it is an "artifact".
>
> "179,000 miles (engine actually has only 168,000)"
>
> I'd love to hear the story behind THAT. Did they manage to blow up the
> factory engine at only 11K miles? Or do they now know every AAA tow truck
> driver east of the mississippi? Maybe they have a big diesel pusher and it
> was their "toad", but who'd want THAT?
>
> --
> John Bange
> '90 Vanagon - "Geldsauger"
>



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