David,

That was a nice bus - I am so sorry to hear of your fire. It's a shame.

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 9:20 PM, David O'Bryan <dnd.obryan@gmail.com> wrote:

> Sad news.
>
> This Sunday on the way home from a camping trip at Cape Henlopen Delaware
> my
> '87 Westy had a catastrophic engine fire.  By the time I could get the
> camping gear off the rear deck and get the engine lid open the fire was too
> great to put out.  It burnt all the way to the ground.  :-(
>
> Here is a link to a few pics prior to the fire.
> http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=283728
>
> I could not tell how the fire started as too much was on fire when I was
> finally able to get to the engine and try and put it out with a fire
> extinguisher.  This was a Subie conversion from two years ago.  No problems
> until now...
>
> So.... I'd like for any of you good folks that come across a rust free
> Westy
> ('87-91) that preferably has a blown or bad engine to please pass the
> contact info on to me.  I'm willing to ship from anywhere in the USA to
> Maryland.  I'm going to put another Subie in this one so I'd actually
> prefer
> one that is not running but has a good body.  Mileage not important.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Dave O
>

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Thanks,

Jeff
'90 Carat (Grover)
'86 (We call this one Parts)
'78 Bus (Melissa) Patty's Bus