Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 13:22:20 -0900
Reply-To: Mike Moery <mike.moery@ACSALASKA.NET>
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From: Mike Moery <mike.moery@ACSALASKA.NET>
Subject: Re: Parting out vs. Repairing an '85 Westy
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I have to agree with Stephan. Part it out, and another wonderful Westy
will be lost to the ages. Re-power it, and you've got a traveling
friend for life!
-Mike Moery
Anchorage, AK
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'Ol Bessie '82TD Westy
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From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf
Of Stephen Steele
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 1:57 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Parting out vs. Repairing an '85 Westy
Stan Wilder wrote in Re:Screwed in a Westy Deal:
> Don't try to salvage a bad deal.............. just wreck out the
vehicle
> and go get a good one.
> I'd think you had at least $3000.00 in salvage value. When I part out
an
> 80-83 Air Cooled I finalize out at about $1500.00 and still have lots
of
> spare parts left.
Wow! I would take a bad engine in a great, clean Westy any day, over the
opposite. Wrecking and parting out an otherwise good vehicle may be the
most
profitable course... I can't imagine taking that course for a mere $500
profit.
If we were into these vans for the money, how many of us could wreck
and
part before the market would be saturated and we would see far fewer of
our
vans on the road.
I don't pretend to know Brad's financial position, but I should think he
would be able to cut his losses by biting the bullet and putting a
reliable
1.9 back in the '85 and use it as he intended. After all, with the
initial
$2500 and the cost of a rebuilt or reliable junkyard WBX he would still
be
in the ballpark of the going market rate for a clean, good looking, good
running '85 Westy... check out the pricing at WestFalia Owner's Website
classifieds...
> http://www.westfalia.org/
Of the eight 1985 listings that I saw...
$10,500, $14,000 (both Canadian$),
$6,500 and $8,500 (both California)
$6,800 and $2,600 with a bad engine (both Colorado)
$3,500 with a"coolant issue" and a "bad lifter" (IL)
and finally
$5,800 (NC)
IMHO...
Going out to get "a good one" will cost him at least as much as the
original
purchase price and the cost to R/R his current 1.9. An I-4 conversion
would
put him t the upper end of the 1985 price range.
--
Stephen Steele*
Chillicothe OH
'91 Caravelle "Hans"
'84 Westfalia "Fritz"
'81 Diesel Rabbit "Ol' Yeller" by PO
'82 Diesel Jetta "Donormobile" for...
'82 Caddy VW P.U. ( White with a nice "mossy" tone from the
years' of sitting waiting to be discovered by a VW
addict like me).
'90 Jetta GL 16 yo Sons' "together" car
'74 MGB My first car...yep, I've kept it since '74
'93 Chevy S-10 I hate it ... soon to be "Gone"
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