If they stripped the van down to a shell (as they say they did) for the
painting the job cost way more than $5K!

Karl Wolz

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On
Behalf Of
> Kim Brennan
> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 11:37 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: GoWesty Van Values
>
> All told I have already put $50K into my Westy Syncro. I didn't do it
> at once, but I definitely have spent the money. And I haven't had a
> paint job on it. And a good paint job as they describe for that one,
> is likely to be a minimum of $3k...maybe more than $5k. Glancing over
> the specs on that one, I see quite a few things that I have not yet
> done to mine (keyless entry system, rewiring interior wiring to run
> off of 2nd battery, dual LP tanks.)
>
>
> On Mar 20, 2006, at 4:48 PM, bueses wrote:
>
> > 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!