Date:         Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:48:56 -0500
Reply-To:     Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@HOTMAIL.COM>
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From:         Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: This could be a real buy...
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That brown one also looked like it still needed $5K worth of body and paint
work. I'm now working on an 82 that someone paid close to $10K for. Yep,
doing an engine 3,000 miles after they bought it. 

Dennis  

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
John Anderson
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 2:57 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: This could be a real buy...

Now not to knock the fact that this does look like a clean van (but who
knows what before the repaint, one would need to look close) but last week
we were ragging on the guy in the DC metro area on a presumably 86k original
mile unit asking about $600 more that might have even been made to run, and
this one needing an engine is a deal at $2600?
 
Like I said then, perhaps there is a grounswell in aircooled Vanagon Westy
value I don't appreciate, but a nonrunner is a $1000 van to me, even with my
arcane 90's sense of value, $1500 perhaps.  Just as value has climbed, parts
$$ to build a solid T4 even if you don't go gold plated, have just kept
climbing in the last 10 years, and one would be more have well over $5k into
this thing if you aren't going to do it yourself.  Let him "rering it" and
buyer then beware...
 
YMMV.
 
John
  

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