At 01:43 PM 01/15/2000 -0600, you wrote:
>Ric, I'd go for a vanagon. For the price of a new EV, you can own three
Westies
>or six vanagons in excellent running order, and maintain them for quite a
>while.
>
>John Rodgers
>88GL Driver
>

For the price of a new EV, you could have the cherryest 21 window cum
laude, or anything in between in increasing ratio. Take any two straight no
rust WasserBoxer chassisusissus. Buy them at distress sale from steam cloud
experience. If you buy something 15 years old, replace all rubber i.e.
remove all the windows.

Full disassembly, drive train, suspension & brakes, steering, interior. Not
much metal bumping involved 'cause it's straight, remember? Strip to bare
metal, replace battery box if the least bit thin from corrosion. Treat all
seams with a wicking rust conversion chemical (Ospho, et al). Everything
straight, bright and sealed with metal prep? Paint in color/s of choice.
Preferably the one shot German/Swedish epoxy type. How about one light
ivory and another powder blue?

Your in now say $3000 per each for two 85 transporters with very good
chassisusissus and bodies and interiors plus say $5000 each for the
teardown and painting, with glass & seals reinstalled.

Replace motors, including cooling system complete, with factory new.
Another $4000? or so? each if you do the remaining assembly, or $1500+ each
to have it done by a stubborn Deutchestype. Your now in about $13,500 each.
Add $1500 each for brakes and or other incidentals or imperatives and you
now see that at $15,000 each, you could have two very nice Vanagon
Transporters for the value of a new EV or .......

just make one for 3/4 the cost of a New Beattle.

One of sooooo many options you now have. Holding my breath till you report
you have the settlement check in your bank.

Regards,

T.P. Stephens aka Doktor Tim
Surveyor, Mechanic, Poet, Philosopher
San Juan Island, WA