If it's just confined to doors, or nearly so, you're very lucky.
You will be miles ahead to replace the doors and have those painted. 
Assuming there are dents.........you wouldn't want to pay for 'good body and
paint work'     ( very hard to get anyway , actual 'good word' that is )
...it would be a couple thousand bucks easily.  Get the doors, install them
yourself carefully, then see about paint and any other body work left.
   A single dent in one panel is often 500 dollars to really make it
disappear.  Depending on grade of work and where you are, but body and paint
work isn't cheap, and rarely is done very well anyway, in my opinion.   Even
very expensive body and paint work is often very poorly done. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Ed Duntz
Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 7:56 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: estimate on repairing right side of van

I had a really bad day Thrusday- two car accidents. One included my '85
Vanagon Westfalia. The whole right side is damaged, from the passenger door
to the far rear seam near the engine vent. Not dented in too much, but it is
the whole side (side-swiped a telephone pole). The pillar between the doors
is slightly bent, and the slider has a wider gap now on the forward side.
I'm trying to decide if it would be cheaper to get a good used front door
and slider rather than have fixed what's there.

Anyone ever had a similar accident? What did it cost and what did you do? I
definitely want to get this fixed.

Thanks,
Ed in CT