Date:         Sun, 8 Mar 1998 10:34:58 -0800
Reply-To:     David Marshall <vanagon@VOLKSWAGEN.ORG>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <Vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         David Marshall <vanagon@VOLKSWAGEN.ORG>
Subject:      Re: Where Have All The Vanagons Gone?
Comments: To: ROGunter <ROGunter@AOL.COM>, Vanagon@VANAGON.COM
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Ask him if he can bring back a 1990 something VW Caddy in exhange!  There
is becoming less and less of these on the road here too!

At 09:59 3/8/98 EST, ROGunter wrote:
>     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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