In a message dated 5/18/2004 5:05:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time, JordanVw@AOL.COM writes:

> yea, go to the bay area...they have more vanagons than they
> know what to do
> with there...people give them away for free!!

Yeah, Chris would be correct. I recently gave away a rustfree sunroof aircooled with a bad engine. Not worth keeping around here. I only kept the tires. I got it for $100. Perfect aircooled vans and westies can be found under $1500. Rebuilding an engine professionally cost abot $3500 in Bay Area dollars. doesn't make good financial sense to fix one. Come and get 'em. Otherwise we cut them up for parts.

Tim, I only have one 87 in the 7 Vanagons that I own. I did commit to selling the 88 Westy fixer to Zoltan from Seattle for $3500 and the 89 GL to my buddy Jero for $1500. Hurray. I'll be down to 5.

Heck I heard California Campers own some 35 Westies to rent out. I saw more than a dozen on their rooftop parking lot just yesterday. All their rigs looked pretty rust free. Parts vans littered the lot too.

BenT