As I understand it, once a vehicle has had a salvage title issued, you can
only insure it for liability.  That knocks the value of the vehicle down a
peg or two.

Karl Wolz

|-----Original Message-----
|From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
|Mike South
|Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 9:45 AM
|To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
|Subject: Re: FS '88 westy with only 36k original miles
|
|I have a pdf of the carfax if anyone is interested (the VIN on thesamba has
|the first two letters reversed btw).  The wreck he mentions was listed as a
|total loss (which I understand with a vehicle that old doesn't necessarily
|mean a lot of damage, just over blue book or whatever).
|
|Brief history:
|Florida 1988,
|Massachusetts purchase May 2003, 19381 miles,
|passed inspection in MA Jun 2003 at 19,701,
|back in FL 12/2004,
|new owner PA 12/2006,
|New owner PA 2/2007,
|totaled by insurance company with 35,993 miles 5/2009 collision damage.
|Salvage title New Castle PA 9/2009.
|Rebuilt title (Philadelphia, PA) issued 11/2009, "dealer took control while
|in inventory"
|
|No trace of it being in Virginia in carfax, could be sold but not titled
|yet
|I suppose...
|
|Anyway, there ya go.  My carfax sub expires in a couple days, I have a few
|queries left if anyone needs anything run.
|
|mike
|
|
|
|On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Mike South <msouth@gmail.com> wrote:
|
|> I sent an email with a bunch of questions, and I while I was searching
|> around for what "R34" meant I saw that it was also posted on cl:
|>
|> http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/cto/1559572033.html
|>
|> In that ad copy it says "I will only be in the states until the 26th So
|> will need to come before that . Have lowered the price".
|>
|> That's either a good explanation for why the price is so low, or warning
|> bells about a possible scam.  (Just to be clear, I'm _not_ accusing the
|> poster of scamming, just pointing something out that should always be
|> considered in such a case.)
|>
|> mike
|>
|> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@cox.net> wrote:
|>
|>> I often find that these extremely low mileage vehicles turn out to be
|>> high mileage vehicles with the low mileage quoted being on a rebuilt
|>> engine.  Maybe not in some cases, but it is common.  If the vehicle has
|>> such low mileage, with the camping equipment seldom used, and was always
|>> garaged, why did it need a new pop top, and why does it need a new
|>> propane tank?
|>>
|>> So far as the chrome, moon hubcaps, those are the originals, and I have
|>> them on my camper.  When I bought it, it had plastic wheel covers that
|>> are quite popular and mimic the appearance of alloy wheels.  The moons
|>> were in a cabinet inside.  First thing I did was to switch them for the
|>> plastic goofy things :-) .  Truer to the original appearance of the
|>> camper.
|>>
|>> David Mc
|>>
|>>
|>>
|>> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:25 AM, jordanvw@AOL.COM wrote:
|>>
|>>  not mine..but dam that's some low mileage..  looks sweet.. not diggin
|>>> those chrome moon hubcaps tho
|>>>
|>>>
|>>> _http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=896425_
|>>> (http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=896425)
|>>>
|>>
|>