Since I posted my craigslist ad for our passenger van with cracked heads
(plug: http://cnj.craigslist.org/car/738381653.html make me an offer!)
I've received lots of responses from people that will tow it away at their
expense for $400 and sound like they are just planning on scrapping it.  It
only makes sense to me if they are getting at least $600 for their troubles.

I hope a vanagon person will want our van so we don't have to scrap it.
Otherwise, anybody want to venture a guess how many miles I'll be able to
drive to the scrapyard with a cracked head and steam blowing out the back?

-Wes

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 5:15 PM, The Bus Depot <vanagon@busdepot.com> wrote:

> > not in the last 6 months since scrap metal has skyrocketed.
> > the scrapyard near me pays the highest in the area.  a guy
> >i met locally just scrapped out a 91 audi last week for $600.
>
>
> It may vary by area. I am in a relatively rural part of PA (about 40
> minutes
> from JordanVw) and had a hard time finding someone who would tow away the
> stripped carcass of my tree-damaged '89 Westy for free, much less pay me
> for
> it. Several turned me down flat, telling me that even for free they
> wouldn't
> make enough in scrap value to justify the fuel costs and time involved in
> transporting it.
>
> - Ron Salmon
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