Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:45:57 -0700
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From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: Part out or Sell - your opinions
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Parting out any really decent type of car or van that's not crashed or
rusted is a shame.
And for sure .....take used doors for example.
I've seen good used doors sit for decades.
I save and preserve any good chassis body I happen to end up with ...
mainly vanagons, and two awesome Mercedes cars ..
'they don't make them like they used to' was never more true than with
good 70's & 80's era Benzes...
and all water-cooled vanagons.
AND...
when you keep them on the car or van ..all those parts ...
you can find stuff when you need it, see exactly how it fits or bolts
in, and all the fasteners are there too.
Unless used right away ..
or kept really organized .....parts pulled off a rig just for the part
itself ...half the time they get rusty, or covered in sawdust, or lost ,
etc. etc.
And vanagon bodies make great storage units too.
the only real good reasons to pull a part is to use it somewhere else,
or work on it, like rebuild an engine or whatever.
for people that care about stuff and take care of things .
On 4/16/2013 8:05 PM, Tom Hargrave wrote:
> One thing to consider - I have parted out three Mercedes that I bought for
> major pieces I needed and I still have parts of all three left, and that was
> over 10 years ago!!!
>
> Parting out any car is not a short term venture.
>
> Thanks, Tom Hargrave
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> Subject: Re: Part out or Sell - your opinions
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> In a message dated 4/16/2013 12:30:37 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> musomuso@GMAIL.COM writes:
>
> I understand the hesitation. The '85 I parted was a Transporter "panel" so
> I got at least one polite "why'd ya part it?" comment. But the advanced
> structural and other rust along with mechanical work required, really made
> it a border line case in terms of a resto project.
>
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> i wouldn't part out a rare or more desireable model like a westy or a
> transporter (ahem, neil! :) but a lowly GL seven passenger van - i have no
> qualms about putting those under the knife.. nobody really wants them
> anyway, sad to say. back when i had my "collection" i parted out quite a
> few GL passenger vans that were actually nice.. simply because they were
> worth more in parts than whole.
>
> nobody will miss it and it will donate its parts to keep other westys on the
> road :)
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