The passenger seat in my 87 Syncro GL (bought used in 2003) didn't have the same
range of fore/aft adjustment as the driver's seat.
After the brute force method failed, an inspection revealed the culprit - a
shotgun shell lodged into the seat track!

----- Original Message ----
From: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Sent: Mon, March 28, 2011 10:31:40 AM
Subject: Re: History in a glovebox and a build sheet question

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 6:56 AM, Joe Luther <jluther@alfons-haar.us> wrote:

> I was sorting through the papers in the glovebox of my 1983 Vanagon and in
> with what I thought were the papers for the Behr AC unit were a few
> documents.  One was a receipt for the initial service on the Vanagon at the
> selling VW dealer and the other a cost worksheet from a dealership in
> Tennessee where the original owner traded in the Vanagon in 1988.  It had
> 70-ish k miles on it at the time after 5 years of ownership, they traded it
> in on a 1988 Pontiac Grand Am with woodgrain interior trim and other sassy
> doodads, a note was on the worksheet that the customer wanted to take the
> GrandAm NOW!  It appeared to be a deal where the dealer gave them $7k+ for
> the Vanagon against a tradein value of $3,800 so the total for the 1988
> GrandAm ended up being almost $20k (!)
>
>
>
> Apparently, they couldn't wait to get rid of the ol' Vanagon and took a
> bath
> to do so, poor thing got kicked right to the curb.
>
>
>
  Wonder which vehicle is worth more now, the Grand Am or the Vanagon?

  I found a crack pipe under the rear seat of a VW bug I got recently.  I
bought it (the Bug) from a nice respectable-looking attractive young lady in
very conservative blue-collar The Dalles, Oregon.