I'd offer less to start, gotta smoke her out.  Or, ask her first to shoot
you a figure she may have in mind.
I've picked up cars for free by saying, "do you want to get rid of that
car?"  I picked up my recent 87 Westy GL in decent shape but a little rusty
w/ 87K miles for $600 and drove it home. It bluebooks for 12 times
that......

YMMV,

Mike B.

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Runberg" <jrunberg@MAC.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 3:39 PM
Subject: A little help (trouble shoot, value)

> Got a call from a lady w/ an '87 Westy basically wanting to unload
> it. Could use list advice on value since condition isn't perfect, and
> it's got a trannie prob that I've never faced before.
>
> Problem:
> Van wouldn't go into reverse, but all other gears. then no first, now
> nothing. Sound like linkage, but I've never had problems with that.
> Thoughts?
>
> Condition:
> 87 full westy, nice interior. Rust in the seams and dime sized hole
> on the front. Haven't seen it in person yet so don't know much more.
> As I said, she sounds like she just wants to unload and I'm not
> motivated to offer more than salvage value considering the rust.
>
> For me, that's maybe in the range of $1500 +/-. I'm sure she could do
> better on eb*y, but what say you?
>
> john
>