And the licence plate cable strapped to bumper of tin top. Hmm....

Yes. Serious rust it seems. The (likely) significant hole at front
pillar, prompted my "unsafe?" comment.

My guess is that someone wanted to do as you suggest. Make a complete
Westy. But as you know, that's a fair amount of work and not for the
faint hearted. Then again, it seems there's ways to install a pop top
in a passenger Vanagon without being too invasive or taking on too
much. Mark Drillock has posted on thesamba about this:

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=583436

If I had the space, the drivelines were ok, decent amount of new parts
on either, I'd come in with a low ball offer for both. At worst, fix
up the passenger Vanagon and part out the rusty Westy.

On 6/28/14, Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@gmail.com> wrote:

> Wow, that's serious rust.  Probably need to replace slider and front doors,
> and lots of metal to cut out and replace. Serious body workers only.
>
> Also, that's the same interior my '85 has, but it has the rectangular
> headlights and the 2.1 engine.  Interesting.
>
> With both you might make one decent Westy!
>
> Stuart
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
> Neil N
> Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2014 10:52 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: '86 Westy + Vanagon For Sale Vancouver BC

> The Westy sure looks rusty (like nearly unsafe rusty?)

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