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Subject:Re: Empty yards
From:Mike South
Date:Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:49:08 -0600

Anyone know where to look in the Dallas area (or anywhere in Texas for that
matter--although lots of Oklahoma and Arkansas are closer than parts of
Texas for me :) ).

Is there a site that lists these?  If not, we could make a custom google map
with all the locations and put comments/ratings on each one.

mike
85 Westy

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 6:46 AM, Tom Stone <tstone8359@aol.com> wrote:

> Speaking of vans in Virginia, back in the air-cooled van days, we were
> cruising the back roads of Virginia and came upon a junkyard in the middle
> of nowhere called M and M Salvage.  We stopped and went through the yard,
> found a few parts, and left. Years later, we moved to Frederick, MD and
> graduated to an '83 Westy. We took the trip to M and M a few more times
> during those years and found a few Vanagons, mostly air-cooled at the time,
> in the yard.  It has been at least 21 years since I have been back to M and
> M.  It may be thriving or dead.  Would be fun to find out.  It was located
> between Ruckersville and Standardsville, VA.  Not much to see in the area
> but it was fun once we arrived! At the time, the yard was mostly foreign
> cars so there was still plenty to see if you have other afflictions beside
> Vanagons.
>
>
> Tom
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Dearing <VWBrain@AOL.COM>
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Sent: Mon, Nov 16, 2009 3:39 pm
> Subject: Re: [VANAGON] Empty yards
>
>
> In a message dated 11/16/2009 1:40:17 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> kimbrennan@MAC.COM writes:Yah, now  we know where all the East Coast
> Vanagons went, between thesetwo locations  that's a couple of hundred
> vanagons.Well not all of them I have a few here at my shop as well, plus the
> ones Idrfive and am trying to sell  later  mark dearing salem Import
>  Servicesalem Va
>
>