Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 23:37:24 -0500
Reply-To: Tom Hargrave <thargrav@HIWAAY.NET>
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From: Tom Hargrave <thargrav@HIWAAY.NET>
Subject: Re: Part out or Sell - your opinions
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I've owned enough cars (58 at last count) to know that if you have one
running & another for parts, 80% of the same parts will fail on both. So
what you have left is a huge pile of parts sitting on 4 wheels that you will
never use. It's far better to pull what you think you need from a donor and
sell the other parts to others who need them. You can always put the money
away to buy the parts you have to buy later.
Thanks, Tom Hargrave
www.stir-plate.com
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From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf Of
Scott Daniel - Turbovans
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 10:46 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Part out or Sell - your opinions
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
> www.stir-plate.com
> www.towercooler.com
> www.kegkits.com
> www.grow-sun.com
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On
> Behalf Of JordanVw@AOL.COM
> Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 10:00 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Part out or Sell - your opinions
>
> 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.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 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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