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Subject:Re: vanagons are rare....on the east coast
From:Scott Daniel - Turbovans
Date:Sat, 29 Oct 2011 21:38:46 -0700

if you have a place to keep them ..
there are lots of inexpensive nearly dead vanagons around, for just a few
hundred bucks each, if that.

At least on the west coast.
I have a dozen at least........and I don't part them out unless they are
really rusted or smashed or burnt.
Scott
www.turbovans.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "pat" <psdooley@VERIZON.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 8:35 PM
Subject: Re: vanagons are rare....on the east coast

> Yeah, same story in Florida.
> 10 years ago there was always a vannie in the junkyard, and on rare
> occasions a late model camper still intact.
> I found diesels with the tranny still there and even a KEP adapter I4
> conversion.
> Now they are gone. Nothing.
>
> Of course also gone are the foxes, quantums, sciroccos and rabbits. And
> audi
> 5k's...
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
> JordanVw@AOL.COM
> Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 10:08 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: vanagons are rare....on the east coast
>
> ive been hitting up all the major junkyards in southeast PA recently
> looking for parts for my tow vehicle (ford van) and have not seen ONE
> vanagon in
> the junkyards...  theyre literally all gone..    i dont see  any on the
> roads either......   maybe the story is different on the  west coast but
> on
> the
> east coast.. they are pretty much nonexistant  anymore...
>
> years back i used to find at least one during a junkyard run...but no
> more...