Date:         Mon, 8 Jun 1998 11:42:39 EDT
Reply-To:     LSheeley@AOL.COM
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <Vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         LSheeley@AOL.COM
Subject:      Bus Shopping
Comments: To: vanagon@vanagon.com
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Need help on an 87 GL  Vanagon full camper. Just divorced young woman needs to
"liquidate some assets" and org. asked $7,900--is now $6.900 and says she
wants high $5K for it.

I want Auto, AC, reasonable appearance. 2 out of 3  is not bad (body dings).

Good stuff:  Maroon color/silver interior. Camper inside looks good and she
says the stove/frig works. (She also says the AC works great, but the belt is
off 'cause she never uses it).  Had a $2K rebuild at indepedant import shop.

Bad stuff:  141K miles on odo. The engine is nasty dirty to have been
"rebuilt" only 10K ago. She doesn/t have receipt for r/b but said the shop
would give her a copy. Wonder about the AC. Needs all 4 tires. Has cracked w/s
on passenger side. No hub caps. Rear bumper dented. Missing both front bumper
end caps. Corner dings on almost all 4 corners. 2 locations of seam rust with
apparent poor matching of respray.

She thinks its worth high $5K. Got any suggestions for it's real worth?  She
claims the dealer she bought it from said it books at high $7's.

I want to buy a dependable bus I can drive 300--500 miles to VW shows with
minor fear of major breakdown. Have a 96 Jeep Cherokee I will try to sell and
will drive bus everyday. Am I going to be better off looking for a newer/lower
mileage like a 89/90 or should I think of a Eurovan?  The low import numbers
of the EV worry me but I also hear all the leaking head stories on this list
on Vanagons.

P.S. We had a great show at Pigeon Forge, Tn. this weekend even with
cold/rainy Saturday. Sunday cleared up and was nice all day. Weren't a lot of
buses there.

Lynn Sheeley
Knoxville, Tenn
The List Hat Guy