Chris,

As a Vanagon owner - and always needing spare parts - that is one of the
saddest story's I have heard in a very, very long time. A tragic loss to
the Vanagon Community.

John

On 1/16/2013 1:55 PM, JordanVw@AOL.COM wrote:
> In a message dated 1/16/2013 2:07:36 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> Rubatoguy@COMCAST.NET writes:
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> And  apparently the city went after him because they claimed he was  an
> unlicenced auto dealer:
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> _http://www.southwesttimes.com/2009/12/archive-4281/_
> (http://www.southwesttimes.com/2009/12/archive-4281/)
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> the mistake kevin made was buying a property that was right in the  middle
> of town on a main road.   if he had bought a farm in the  country off a main
> road in the middle of nowhere, nobody would have complained.
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> i went thru something similar a few yrs ago as some of y'all may remember.
> the most vanagons ive ever had at one time was about 25 -30 or  so at my
> folks farm.   you couldn't even see them from the  road, they were all neatly
> lined up like kevins.. but..it just took one person  to make a call to the
> township and that was it.    it was a way  for them to make money on the
> fines so they jumped on it like flies on  poo....    "fine" with me, i sold the
> westys and parted out the  rest. i saved what i could but a lot of good
> stuff went to the crusher as i  was under a time constraint.  made some money
> back at the local  scrapper when i hauled them over the scale, but mostly it
> was a loss  because scrap metal was down then.   such is  life.       i just
> have 3 runners now and one  parts van for my own use.   my vanagon
> collecting days are over! :)
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> chris
> '89 westy
> '84 sunroof wolfsburg
> '85 doka
>   and one '85 parts van.
> that's it!!
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