Your vanagon needs quite a bit of work...looks like where I started 20 years
ago. These were challenges and learned a lot from them. If you want to learn
and pick up some skills looks like you picked a winner. Thats how I started.
All my cars in my life time were my means of a learning experince. Looking
at this excessive corrosion first thing I would do is re-inspect all areas
through out. Most likely there is significant deterioration in inner skin.
Take a philip screwdriver and poke around and see how far it has spread.
Once you pull the windshield out inspect the windshield frame, take a flash
light and look between the metal...this will pretty much tell you what your
getting into. Good Luck!!!!!!
Andy
82 Wild Wild Westy
----- Original Message -----
From: Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 4:36 PM
Subject: Re: rust pictures

> But hey!  you've learned a new skill.  And probably a whole new language
> (&%)#(*). <g>
>
> Karl Wolz
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Stewart" <Fonman4277@AOL.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 11:48 AM
> Subject: Re: rust pictures
>
>
> > Chris,
> >     FWIW, I took a class in welding, and bought a mig welder in order to
> > restore my '76 Westfalia. I already "restored" it once, 3 yrs ago, using
> > fiberglass filler in the rocker and dogleg areas. Right now it's in my
> garage
> > with both cab steps and doglegs cut out, the passengers side is already
> > welded in and I'm working on the drivers side. *Most* folks would not
have
> > gone to the extreme that I have, with both the time and financial
> investment
> > I've made. The areas I fixed 3 yrs ago started to rust through again,as
I
> > knew they would, so then I was faced with the choice of selling it or
> doing
> > it all over again the right way, which I chose to do. Right before I
> bought
> > mine I had a chance to buy a pristine '79 Westy from Arizona, it was
100%
> > complete and in excellent condition, but the guy wanted $4,500.00 for
it,
> > which I thought was kind of steep at the time. I ended up buying mine
for
> a
> > lot less, but now 3 yrs later when I think of the time and money ( I'm
> afraid
> > to sit down and add up all the receipts I have from RMMW, Bus Depot, and
> > Wolfsburg West) I've spent, I am probably far past the $4,500.00 for
that
> > '79. And If I factored in my labor, even at only $10.00/hr., I know I'm
> WAY
> > past  $4,500.00.  So, again, my intent was not to insult, but to
encourage
> > folks to look at the WHOLE picture before jumping into a project like
> this.
> > Enthusiasm can quickly turn into resentment and disgust.     Take care &
> good
> > luck,   Jeff S
> >