On Tue, 18 May 2004, Brian T. wrote:

> I was just on their site and almost fell outa my chair
> at what they are asking and appear to be getting for
> twenty year old vans.  I guess the Kelly BB isn't
> accurate or banks are handing out money for the fun of
> it.

People will pay extra for something they don't have to put money and work
into right way.  Remember Stan's Law -- if you buy a typical Vanagon,
you'll put at least the original purchase price back into it in repairs in
the first year of ownership.  If GoWesty has already done that work, their
prices don't look so bad.

If you want something really outrageous, I can show you places where
Porsche Speedster replicas are selling for more than the original cars
retailed for, and they're not even real Porsches, just a fiberglass
Speedster-lookalike body on a VW Beetle chassis.

David Brodbeck, N8SRE
'86 Volvo 240DL wagon
'82 VW Vanagon Westfalia Diesel