Date:         Sun, 14 Nov 1999 13:19:17 -0600
Reply-To:     Bob Berkemer <berky@WIN.BRIGHT.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Bob Berkemer <berky@WIN.BRIGHT.NET>
Subject:      Re: Westy value
Comments: To: paul banks <paulbanks@NLLFAN.COM>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854";
              x-mac-creator="4D4F5353"

paul banks wrote:

> Just wondering...how accurate do you think the Kelly Blue book values are for Westies?

Paul,

Kelley Blue book values "appear" to reflect values of westies on the east coast and particularly the west coast. In the rest of the country
Kelley values are worthless. Most banks and insurance companies never heard of "Kelley Blue book" ! They use NADA (National Automobile Dealers
Association) Blue Book values which are 1/3 to 1/2 the values listed in Kelley.

Recently in Eau Claire Wisconsin (that's the "fly over" land for people on the coasts), a very clean 87 westy sold at the Volkswagen dealer
for $7,500......... that's at a VW dealer!!  In California that same westy might go for 10 or 11K.

Ultimately the values of our vanagons are determined by what the banks want to value them at. They aren't interested in taking risks and if
the vanagons are just 15 year old foreign cars then they're not worth much and that's the case in the midwest.

Bob, 84 westy
Menomonie WI