Hi Joy,

As I dimly recall from the concurrent eBay listing, it was purchased by a
Norwegian (Swedish maybe) farmer. The story was that the farmer liked the
that particular configuration of van so much that he bought two identical
vans new from VW at the same time, and laid this one up in his barn against
the day that the other one was worn out.

Apparently that day never came. I would just love to know how much whoever
was selling this van paid to get it in the first place, as I recall the
thing going for over $50,000 on eBay.

Nice advertisement for a dealer to have, I guess.

Dave

On 4/6/07, Joy Hecht <hecht.joy@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> But what's the story?  Why was it never used?  And why no seats, too?
>
>
> Joy
>
>
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> Joy Hecht
> now living in a real house in northern Virginia
> and Matilda, 1989 Burgundy Vanagon
> now living in the driveway and resting after two and a half years
> lugging Joy and her stuff around...
>
> For musings about life traveling in the van or living in one place:
> http://www.joyhecht.net
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> :::-----Original Message-----
> :::From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
> :::Of BJ Feddish
> :::Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 10:42 PM
> :::To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> :::Subject: Re: "Brand new" bus
> :::
> :::You mean this one?
> :::
> :::http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=428689
> :::
> :::I just love looking at this one.
> :::
> :::Bryan
>