Who's disillusioned ?
Andrew in Australia ? or ?
And what's the problem ? I don't get it.
I'm fixing and converting and upgrading vanagons left and right
...............the only 'problem' I have is not enough time for the amount
of work requested.  
  There are no end of places to get things from etc.  Oh, I do have an
advantage, I have a real shop  ( nothing hi tech or expensive  but a real
indoor place to work on things ) and I can make a lot of parts I need, like
mounts or whatever.
   I notice people trying to work on their vans outdoors, in the winter
time, without jacking it up .......some people don't even have a jack and
jack stands near as I can tell.  My point is it helps to set yourself up
with some decent working space and a few basic tools.
  As for the 'T3 community' .............I'm on lots of different
lists.............that helps.  No offense, but if I had to depend on just
this list ...............well, I'm glad I don't
 My point is 'the T3 community' is just fine and there's a few bad apples
here and there, sure, but that happens in anything.
  I see nothing but enjoyment and glory in vanagons and syncro vanagons
myself.   
They're fantastic, and they have a lot of life and usefulness left in them.
I urge everyone to not throw away good vanagon bodies, or 'part them' out,
because each vanagon body has hundreds of small good parts on it that can be
used to make other vanagons happier or upgrade them.  
Scott
www.turbovans.com 

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Andrew Grebneff
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 7:02 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Considering scrapping my project van after forking out over $26
grand

Well, I've gotten to the stage where I am considering loading all the
parts I have bought for my van (993 brakes, 2 SVX engines, G50/50
trans, electric window etc kits, Raintronic wipers, adaptor axles
etc) and tow it to the crusher. Don't know if I can be bothered to
pull the trans to try to sell. None of the other (never-installed)
parts will be salable here.

Why? I am totally disillusioned with the T3 community. Of the 3
members (all from TheSamba) who offered the parts I require to get
the van legal, one took my deposit and ran:

Weiler, Stephen
3828 New Sharon Church Rd
Hillsborough, NC 27278
  919-732-0876
... who has a business (mechanical?) in a nearby town

The other two offered parts but didn't answer my request for prices
and location.

NOBODY on the Vanagon.com list can be bothered to sell to someone
overseas. Thanks, friends.

As things are, thr bus will take up room in my driveway and rust. I
am not preopared to spend the thousands of dollars it is necessary to
spend to have rust removed (rust "treatment" is only a delaying
tactic; rusty metal must be REMOVED, and how do you do this in
corner-junctions in complex structural areas?).