Date:         Sat, 3 Feb 2007 08:39:05 -0500
Reply-To:     Greg Potts <greg@POTTSFAMILY.CA>
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From:         Greg Potts <greg@POTTSFAMILY.CA>
Subject:      Re: Ride height (was Re: Total restoration cost!)
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Hi Frank,

Actually, Dennis Jolliffe picked up a 40K-miles aircooled van from
ebay two years ago that was VERY cheap thanks to an engine fire. The
fire was put out pretty quick so it didn't destroy the sheetmetal.
His cost was much less than what you paid for parts. Since the parts
you replaced had 500K on them, even 100K or 200K parts still have
lots of life left in them.

IIRC, there's a panel vanagon near kingston with less than 100K on
it. Pretty rough, though.

Happy Trails,

Greg Potts
1973/74/77/79 Westfakia "Bob The Tomato
www.pottsfamily.ca



On 3-Feb-07, at 5:50 AM, Frank Condelli wrote:

> In a message dated 02/02/2007 2:30:35 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM writes:
>
> Nice  work you did there. Wouldn't it have been cheaper to find a low-
> milage  parts van, and swap over the OG parts from it?
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> Low mileage parts van  ??????  Now just where would one find one of
> those ?
> Still not cost  effective.  After 500,000 km it is best to put
> everything back
> to new and  start over.