Wow... what a bummer... that's like ordering on-line for specialty items and returning them... only to find you get instore credit and the company does not make anything worth buying!!  The problem is $150 may not be enough... or it may be too much.  Then there's the time to remove the part.  Here's what I'd look for...

  Set of 15 inch rims for future mounting,
  rear hatch struts
  gas cap
  air conditioning parts
  windshield wiper motor
  plastic vent pieces, like the ones on the left and right side of the dashboard
  things you can sell on ebay (you might not need it but it could be popular)
  Raffle it off on the vanagon.com list!!!  The money could go to the helper pot that just got depleated... I'd buy a ticket.

BA <oddstray@ODDSTRAY.COM> wrote:
  Hi, all,

Well, the Vanagon window we got from the wrecking yard just wasn't
good enough for our trusty Westy.

And the wrecking-yard guy had verbally assured us we could return it
if it wasn't suitable. Yeah, right. We can return it only for
wrecking-yard credit.

So, we need to do something with our $150 or so wrecking-yard credit.
Can anyone suggest some "must have" spare parts that we should go down
and pick up while the pickins' are good? The yard has at least one 87
Vanagon parted out, but it isn't a Westy so we'd probably be thinking
about Vanagon rather than about Westy parts.

B&S
'87 Westy 'Esmerelda Blanc'
SoCal

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