My restored, R-TDI 1986 Syncro Westie is for sales for $62.500 Canadian -
which is my actual cost of purchasing / importing the vehicle, doing a
full restoration and engine conversion.  Not cheap, but really, if
you compare it to the price of a VW Touareg it's a bargain.  I can
drive to the VW dealership now and buy a Touareg for about that kind of
coin, but really there is no other Westfalia like mine or even close to
mine that is currently for sale so really the $62.500 is a bargain!

$18.000 Canadian for a nice stock Syncro seems to be the going
rate on the west coast of Canada.  I don' t think your price is out
of line at all.

David Marshall

http://www.hasenwerk.ca
http://www.fastforward.ca

Box
4153, Quesnel BC, Canada V2J 3J2

On Thu, February 1, 2007
10:52, Malcolm Stebbins wrote:
> --- Benny boy
<huotb@VIDEOTRON.CA> wrote:
>
>> So before you
think of restoring your/a van from bumper to bumper, you
>>
could
>> easily end up spending over 25-30k with labor.... to
get an 80% restored
>> Vanagon Camper.
>
> As
some may know, A year ago, I bought a 1989 Syncro 16" Dehlet
High-top
> from Germany, 148,000 KMS
> and in VERY good
condition.  I shipped it to Halifax NS, then I bought a
> Reimo
camping interior:
> Cost to date:  about CDN 30,000 and I still
want a TDi Conversion -
> another Euro 12,000.
>
> Your's is a 2WD,  people tell me that my asking price of CDN18,000
is too
> much for my 1991 syncro
> westy!  People just
don't understand the time/costs/values.   Malcolm