I saw a classified ad for a buyer interested in purchasing like 15 or 20 vanagons years 83 to 87 for shipment to South America. I guess things like this are making parts hard to find and rendering a great vehicle useless. ============================================== 86 Scirocco (driver) 81 turbo Rabbit pickup (junkyard brew) 85 Vanagon (waiting for some kinda drivetrain) 86 Golf (parts only, thankyou) 92 Tempo (girlfriends) ============================================== -----Original Message----- From: ROGunter <ROGunter@AOL.COM> To: Vanagon@VANAGON.COM <Vanagon@VANAGON.COM> Date: Sunday, March 08, 1998 10:38 AM Subject: Where Have All The Vanagons Gone?
> For those of us who have been wondering why we don't see Vanagons for >sale that much anymore, part of the reason may be the voracious market for >these beauties overseas. > > Yesterday I answered an ad in the Washington Post and went to see a '91 >Vanagon which I didn't buy (it was trashed), but found out something very >interesting. The gentleman I met said for the past year or so, he has been >scouring the US for used Vanagons. He buys them, puts them on a ship and >sends them to South Africa where he probably more than doubles his money. He >says anymore it's too hard to find Vanagons so he is looking for another type >of used vehicle to export overseas. > > What does the depletion of the Vanagon inventory mean to us who are >always on the lookout for used ones from which to scavenge parts? Doesn't >seem to bode well for keeping a Vanagon alive indefinitely. Soon they will be >an endangered species - may the gov't will protect them then!! > >Russell Gunter >Woodbridge, VA >'85 GL >'93 EV |
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