visiting my dad in sunny California (wow- seen whole days without rain here!) so we took a little junkyard tour. EPA was very disappointing. Used to be always a split screen or three, and a row of bubblw windows.Alas, those days are GONE! Two of the yards are closed. Saw one vanagon, and half a dozen 70s beetles. Today visited a place in San Jose. VW used parts Center (408) 294-5210. Finagled my way into the yard with the splits. This place is a vw only breakers- they take the cars apart for you - and the prices are higher. And lo and behold - I saw a bus I recognised. I had been half assedly trying to get mt hands on a stash of buses over the past year or so, from this old geezer. The 63 crust bus with a "I'd rather be Flying" sticker, used to have a lot more good parts on it. Also a couple very nice bubble window campers, I had wanted to put back on the road - very clean- one with metal euro style dash. Made me sick. Should have been more pushy, especially when I heard the geezer died in the summer. Oh Well. SOL oh- the pick up- yeah, they had a 58 pickup, said it ran, no back bumper, had a front, nose dented fairly completely, not to mention sides- PO had not been very spatially aware, shall we say. Had a 1600 DP. Some rust, redone front seats, later taillights and decklid, no floormat or vw symbol. Anyway, guy said no parts off that one, he wanted $1200 for it, probably okay for a runabout.
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