Date:         Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:39:40 -0700
Reply-To:     Tom Buese <tombuese@COMCAST.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Tom Buese <tombuese@COMCAST.NET>
Subject:      Re: My Westy is totaled!
Comments: To: The Bus Depot <vanagon@BUSDEPOT.COM>
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Those pics just make me sick.  A friend had the same thing happen to
his parent's new Adventurewagen back in the late 80's.  Sorry for
your loss.

Enjoy your vanagons like each day is its last?

Pax,

Tom B.-& I was fretting about a dent in my rear bumper


On Dec 18, 2007, at 10:47 AM, The Bus Depot wrote:

> A 60 foot tree squashed my Westy like a bug early yesterday
> morning.  I've
> never seen a Vanagon so totally demolished.  Not a single body
> panel is
> intact and it literally split at the seams. The curious can see
> some pics
> at:
>
> http://home.comcast.net/~type2/Vanagon.htm
>
> While I've had a number of VW campers over the years of various
> vintages,
> this one had a special place in my heart, as my little girl (now 9)
> pretty
> much grew up in it over the summers.
>
> Anyway, now comes the arduous process of convincing the insurance
> company
> that a VW camper is worth more than the NADA book says it is. And
> finding a
> replacement.  If anyone knows of a very clean later model Vanagon
> Westy
> (although I wouldn't rule out a '76-79 or a Eurovan camper) that isn't
> overpriced, please let me know. Driving distance from Philly is
> preferred
> but not absolutely necessary.
>
> - Ron Salmon
>   The Bus Depot, Inc.
>   www.busdepot.com
>   (215)  234-VWVW
>
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