I am in Florida for a couple of months to get away from the northern weather.  I made a customary visit to Cofer's/LKQ junkyard on 63rd St in Bradenton.  In the back row of the import section was an '88 Vanagon tin top.  It looked familiar so I checked around.  It was owned by a friend of a friend of my sons and was recently abandoned.  It was previously driven to a warehouse parking lot where my son has a space rented with locked up brakes and a hole in the gas tank.  It then sat for a number of years before finally being impounded and hauled away. 

So, it may have a relatively good engine and transmission.  I and others stripped it pretty clean of any other parts.  I do not have the equipment with me to take the engine and trans out and it would take some work to get it home to Ohio so I am letting interested Vanagon people know about it.  If anyone has questions or needs help getting what's left, let me know. 

Tom Stone