on 3/20/06 2:20 PM, Florian Speier at groups.florian@GMAIL.COM wrote:

> well, gowesty now lists the prices they bought the original rigs for. you
> see a westy coming in for 5500$ they mark it up by 20% and then repair it
> until it costs 28000$. i am sure that makes vanagons interesting to a group
> of people that would otherwise not drive such an old vehicle, but i prefer
> to have 20k$ in my pocket for a little less reliability. but maybe this will
> change if i ever earn a lot of money, who knows?
> i respect gowestys work, what annoys me is that so many vanagons ads
> nowadays say "what a bargain at 18k$,  look at gowesty they sell the same
> rig for 28k$"   yeaah except gowesty put 20k$ in repairs in......
> flo

Yes, & who but the guy who really wants the custom red syncro westy will pay
$73 k for one.  The price you have into a vehicle is rarely if ever the
price you can sell it for!

Tom-I think Tom S.'s faux syncro westy should sell for $115k!