I'd offer less to start, gotta smoke her out. Or, ask her first to shoot you a figure she may have in mind. I've picked up cars for free by saying, "do you want to get rid of that car?" I picked up my recent 87 Westy GL in decent shape but a little rusty w/ 87K miles for $600 and drove it home. It bluebooks for 12 times that...... YMMV, Mike B. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Runberg" <jrunberg@MAC.COM> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 3:39 PM Subject: A little help (trouble shoot, value)
> Got a call from a lady w/ an '87 Westy basically wanting to unload > it. Could use list advice on value since condition isn't perfect, and > it's got a trannie prob that I've never faced before. > > Problem: > Van wouldn't go into reverse, but all other gears. then no first, now > nothing. Sound like linkage, but I've never had problems with that. > Thoughts? > > Condition: > 87 full westy, nice interior. Rust in the seams and dime sized hole > on the front. Haven't seen it in person yet so don't know much more. > As I said, she sounds like she just wants to unload and I'm not > motivated to offer more than salvage value considering the rust. > > For me, that's maybe in the range of $1500 +/-. I'm sure she could do > better on eb*y, but what say you? > > john > |
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