Date:         Fri, 4 Jun 1999 02:12:04 -0500
Reply-To:     Marshall Ruskin <mruskin@PANGEA.CA>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Marshall Ruskin <mruskin@PANGEA.CA>
Subject:      Re: '87 syncro for 20k. Is this normal?
Comments: To: Budd Premack <bpremack@WAVETECH.NET>
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Not at all unusual for Winnipeg, however.

A dealer-detailed 91 Westy is about to go on sale here for just under 20 K,
and he will get it. This is just the third one this VW dealer has been able
to get in the past year.

Like I've said to listee's before, Winnipeg is the place to sell your
Westies. I don't really know why. Perhaps because of our isolated culture
and economic (good) condition, they have caught the locals fancy.

Maybe the prominance of military folks here who drive german cars has a
positive effect (lot's and lot's of 'em drive German cars)- the military
saved Winnipeg from the floods a couple of years ago - so the military are
somewhat esteemed here.

In any event, Westies are "like gold" here, to quote an automobile salesman.

BTW: after the floods ended, there was a military parade through the center
of town, and the streets were thick with applauding people - it was like
they were our liberators after a foreign invasion. Made the National news.

Cheers!

Marshall Ruskin
-----Original Message-----
From: Budd Premack <bpremack@WAVETECH.NET>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Date: Friday, June 04, 1999 1:48 AM
Subject: Re: '87 syncro for 20k. Is this normal?


>20K for an 87 Syncro is ridiculous!
>
>See my post last weekend about an 87 Syncro in the Minneapolis Tribune in
>very nice shape for $3600.  (That is cheap; I would expect $5-7000 would be
>reasonable for a nice, not perfect, one.)
>
>Budd Premack
>86 Syncro, 84 GL(for sale soon), 73 Super
>Minneapolis, MN (Land of Sky Blue Waters)
>