Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:56:11 -0700
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: Would you buy this salvage title Vanagon?
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I was thinking how great a group collectively owned large, dry climate,
vanagon storage facility would be.
that would be a trip ....a vanagon-gerry storage place..
thinking desert perhaps , dry climate for sure, not-too-expensive land.
and sell shares in it ..then we could all have at least some place to stash
our treasures.
with vanagon camp ground too of course..
perhaps a spring-fed swimming pool and some trees too. With hot springs
even.
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From: "BenT Syncro" <syncro@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 2:19 PM
Subject: Re: Would you buy this salvage title Vanagon?
Space is a premium in my neck of the woods. I stored a 1985 Doka where
storage is cheaper. When I retrieved it a few years later, there holes in
the important bodyparts the size of fist.
I dream of a place like in that TV program where these guys in the desert
have 10,000 old cars just sitting outside yet not falling victim to the
tinworm. They restore them one at a time then auction them off.
That seems to be what Vanamania was doing out in the dry climate of Pahrump,
NV near Lost Wages. They got lost along the way.
BenT
sent from my electronic leash
On Apr 15, 2011, at 1:37 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans
<scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM> wrote:
> If I had the space to keep it,
> I'd just take care of it as reasonably possible.....and see what happens.
> the right buyer might come along and that's just what they want and they
> don't care about the salvage title.
> and if you need to use the engine or trans out of it for another project..
> those are not hard to put back in later .
> so 'use it for parts as needed' ..but don't strip it ..or 'part it out'
> per
> se.
>
> I have my 'repair-throughout-to sell very nice vanagons' .
> I have my pure parts ones that will never run again ..
> and I have some that are not nice enough to sell well repaired..
> but they're not trashed either ..so I 'try' not to rob them for parts .
> My rare US model nine passenger 84 is like that......bit dinged to do a
> whole number on, but far to good with no rust and clean title to part out
> or
> crush. I don't even want much for the rolling body/chassis.
>
> 90 is a good year. if it's a good color and not rusted or crashed ..
> could make a great van for someone.
>
>
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