Having seen more than my fair share of basket cases that are talked up by their present owners, and advertised as "good condiction", you may want to run away - fast. Sounds like trouble. That is unless you have a ton of patience and a lot of money to rebuild the way you want. That doggie bathroom stuff alone would scare me off. I walked away from a '88 GL a few weeks ago. The only real problem I found was that the heads needed work. But the guy selling it said it was "...a California.." van, never registered in NYS. Yet it had local radio station bumper stickers all over the back, and a local town dump sticker on the rear window. Hmmmm.... Alan Bosch, aka Ever the Wannabus Presently: '92 Passat CL Formerly: '69, '71, '73 Bugs, '82 Rabbit L, '82 Rabbit Diesel, '83 GTi, '88 Fox GL Sport, '94 Jetta III "...fahn, fahn, fahn, auf der autobahn..." |
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