In a message dated 4/16/2013 12:30:37 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
musomuso@GMAIL.COM writes:

I  understand the hesitation. The '85 I parted was a Transporter
"panel" so I  got at least one polite "why'd ya part it?" comment. But
the advanced  structural and other rust along with mechanical work
required, really made  it a border line case in terms of a  resto
project.

i wouldn't part out a rare or more desireable model like a westy or a
transporter (ahem, neil! :) but a lowly GL seven passenger van - i have no
qualms about putting those under the knife..  nobody really wants them  anyway,
sad to say.  back when i had my "collection" i parted out  quite a few GL
passenger vans that were actually nice.. simply because they were  worth more
in parts than whole.

nobody will miss it and it will donate its parts to keep other westys on
the road :)