Date:         Sun, 12 Jul 1998 18:17:51 -0100
Reply-To:     The Bus Depot <ron@NETCARRIER.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <Vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         The Bus Depot <ron@NETCARRIER.COM>
Subject:      Re: West Coast Metric
Comments: To: Vanagon@VANAGON.COM
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> The West Coast site did not include the Vanagon as being discontinued.


WCM is getting out of parts for all watercooled VW's - including the
watercooled Vanagons.  Vanagon parts will still be offered as long as they
fit the aircooled models.

However, WCM actually makes (or made) very few parts for Vanagons anyway.
Most of the parts they sell for Vanagons are actually original Volkswagen
parts, which they re-label and mark up (often to ABOVE Volkswagen retail!!).
As a WCM warehouse distributor, I do use them (very) occasionally as a
supplier for an odd Vanagon part here or there, but for the most part I can
get the same genuine VW part significantly cheaper elsewhere.  So in my
opinion they never really were a major supplier of Vanagon parts anyway.

- Ron Salmon
 The Bus Depot
 http://www.busdepot.com