Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 12:50:58 -0700
Reply-To: Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@Q.COM>
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From: Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@Q.COM>
Subject: Re: Slightly Overpriced GL on The Samba
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This one is tempting, speaking of going to AZ for a van. If you come to
Phoenix, let me know and I'll buy the beer. Looks pretty nice in the pics,
too. Classic '88 Wolfsburg. Power locks, removable bucket seats and bench
seat that folds into full size bed. Only 20,000 mi on new clutch and engine
direct from Germany! Air compressor, belts, hoses all replaced. ORIGINAL
PAINT, NEW WINDSHIELD 12/10, Original owner and new tires. 97,000 on
chassis. Sacrifice $6500.
http://phoenix.craigslist.org/wvl/cto/2091177457.html
There's also an ad for an '85 Westy from a month ago.
Overall in good shape, custom luggage rack on the back and also a custom
bike rack for the front. Everything works, stove and referator, water system
for the little sink.
This is a classic campervan with great design, come see call 206 940 1380
Power steering, 1.9 L engine, or best offer MUST SELL. It looks at least OK
in the pics.
http://phoenix.craigslist.org/evl/cto/2045734546.html
and how often can you find a working referator??
If someone is SERIOUSLY interested, I can look at either of these, though
both are about thirty miles from me, and in opposite directions.
Karl Wolz
|-----Original Message-----
|From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
|Jeffrey Vickers
|Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 12:30 PM
|To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
|Subject: Re: Slightly Overpriced GL on The Samba
|
|Here's the glass half full scenario:
|
|Spend $400 on a round trip ticket from Boston to CA, buy a $5000 rust
|free, functioning van and put it on a truck for $1000. You're back in
|Boston for less than $6500 and you've got a rust-free van that needs
|nothing.
|
|There's two, high mileage rust-free vans on SF Craigslist for $1500.
|There's also an engine for $800. A total of 8 vans up there right now,
|all for less than $3000. I spent all of two minutes to find those.
|
|Or... you could leave our rust-free vans here and help the auto body
|guys in Boston make their boat payments.
|
|Born in MA - Live in CA,
|Jeff
|
|
|
|
|On Dec 20, 2010, at 8:31 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
|
|> Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 07:38:56 -0800
|> From: "Mark L. Hineline" <hineline@OCOTILLOFIELD.NET>
|> Subject: Re: Slightly Overpriced GL on The Samba
|>
|> Ken,
|>
|> NJ isn't the Northeast. Have you seen what cars look like in
|> Massachusetts?
|>
|> You are of course right about the rubber and so forth. But the real
|> question is what is the opportunity cost to buying a Vanagon? Sure,
|> you can take time off from work, fly to Arizona (from Boston), inspect
|> the vehicle, maybe do this a couple of times because the ads are
|> "optimistic," buy something like this for $4000, try to drive it home,
|> have the hoses fail in Oklahoma, destroy the engine, hire a hauler to
|> get the thing to Massachusetts, and then start restoring. I don't know
|> if all of that is equal to $7000 or not, but it's getting there.
|>
|> If someone in Massachusetts or New Hampshire or Maine buys this and
|> knows what they are doing, and then puts four or five thousand into
|> it, that's not a bad deal. I would much rather start with a body that
|> has little rust, no patchwork, and so forth.
|>
|> I know that you have expertise in this area, and I don't question it.
|> But sometimes expertise narrows your idea of what makes sense. There
|> are a number of different ways to end up with a nice, reliable
|> Vanagon.
|>
|> Mark
| 
