>I've been buying doo, dads and gizoms from about seven wrecking yards for
>five years.
>There are just a lot of Vanagon parts that seldom need replacing so I
>don't buy them as spares.
>I've offered to buy bulk from these yards at a cheap price if they'll cut
>me a deal a couple of days before they start crushing.
>I think I offended them because they never call to extend such an offer.
>With the last batch that went to the crusher from three of the yards
>there were five 80-83 Air cooled, ten 83-91 Water Cooled and about twenty
>pre 1980 vans, thirty bugs, beetles that all went to the mill.
>Apparently I don't think like a wrecking yard owner but it seems a waste
>when they know I'd buy a few hundred dollars worth of plastic, glass,
>carpets, seats, door panels that have no crushed value at all.

This is not uncommon. Out of spite, these people would rather lose
entirely than let you have it cheap. The Ashburton (NZ) wrecker had a
surplus of Subarus, including turbo Legacys, and they crushed them
complete (none were at all rusty) rather than sell them cheaply!
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Andrew Grebneff
165 Evans St, Dunedin 9001, New Zealand
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut
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