He will likely get a lot less, maybe end up parting it out.  

 

The way the shop fixed mine was to cut out a clip from a donor along the top of the engine compartment about 8” inside and then drilled the spot welds below the rain rail.  I think it included the rear valance all the way to the left side seam since both sections were blue, and the hatch was yellow.  The van is brown.

 

Pretty amazing work, and the van had to have been new, or it would have been totaled like this one.

 

Stuart

 

From: T Collins [mailto:tonycollin@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, June 01, 2015 6:40 AM
To: Stuart MacMillan
Cc: vanagon
Subject: Re: All you need is a rear clip

 

​Im just having difficulties with thinking that with the work required on that vanagon that the asking prize is still $3.400.

 

Have our vanagons really reached that kind of coin?

 

T.​

 

On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@gmail.com> wrote:

My '85 likely suffered damage like this when it was new.  It has a rear
quarter panel, valance, and hatch from three different donors, just like
this one needs:

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=1795441