In a message dated 1/16/2013 2:07:36 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
Rubatoguy@COMCAST.NET writes:

And  apparently the city went after him because they claimed he was  an
unlicenced auto dealer:

_http://www.southwesttimes.com/2009/12/archive-4281/_
(http://www.southwesttimes.com/2009/12/archive-4281/)

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.

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! :)

chris
'89 westy
'84 sunroof wolfsburg
'85 doka
 and one '85 parts van.
that's it!!