I saw a classified ad for a buyer interested in purchasing like 15 or 20
vanagons  years 83 to 87 for shipment to South America.  I guess things like
this are making parts hard to find and rendering a great vehicle useless.
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86 Scirocco (driver)
81 turbo Rabbit pickup (junkyard brew)
85 Vanagon (waiting for some kinda drivetrain)
86 Golf (parts only, thankyou)
92 Tempo (girlfriends)
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-----Original Message-----
From: ROGunter <ROGunter@AOL.COM>
To: Vanagon@VANAGON.COM <Vanagon@VANAGON.COM>
Date: Sunday, March 08, 1998 10:38 AM
Subject: Where Have All The Vanagons Gone?

>     For those of us who have been wondering why we don't see Vanagons for
>sale that much anymore, part of the reason may be the voracious market for
>these beauties overseas.
>
>     Yesterday I answered an ad in the Washington Post and went to see a
'91
>Vanagon which I didn't buy (it was trashed), but found out something very
>interesting.  The gentleman I met said for the past year or so, he has been
>scouring the US for used Vanagons.  He buys them, puts them on a ship and
>sends them to South Africa where he probably more than doubles his money.
He
>says anymore it's too hard to find Vanagons so he is looking for another
type
>of used vehicle to export overseas.
>
>     What does the depletion of the Vanagon inventory mean to us who are
>always on the lookout for used ones from which to scavenge parts?  Doesn't
>seem to bode well for keeping a Vanagon alive indefinitely.  Soon they will
be
>an endangered species - may the gov't will protect them then!!
>
>Russell Gunter
>Woodbridge, VA
>'85 GL
>'93 EV