Date:         Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:26:28 -0800
Reply-To:     neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Buying vanagons as parts donors
Comments: To: JordanVw@aol.com
In-Reply-To:  <bfc.2c641099.34e3c61d@aol.com>
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I had to pay as well.

$50

For a Vanagon with only rusted brakelines, shocks, upper A-arms,
slider door and headlights left on it.

One guy wanted $75!

I called 3 different scrap car haulers.

Neil N.



On Feb 12, 2008 8:03 PM,  <JordanVw@aol.com> wrote:
> In a message dated 2/12/08 10:18:51 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> jrunberg@MAC.COM writes:
>
>
> > We had a 78 Westy which *no* local yard would take. Even
> > for $$.
> >
> >
>
> scrap metal is almost a dollar per 100lbs.   are you telling me you actually
> have to *pay* to get your carcasses hauled off?
>
> i can strip a vanagon down to the shell - no motor, no trans, no spindles, no
> glass, no interior, no doors,  and still get $100 bucks for whats left at my
> local scrap metal place..
>
> scrap metal $ is up, people..
>
> chris
>
>
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