This has got to be a world record price paid for a Vanagon !

[pete000]

Wow, Almost a hundred grand !


http://www.gowesty.com/vehicle_details.php?id=838
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1990 Vanagon RS 2.1
1967 Deluxe 21 window
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Koni Shocks
H & R Red Springs
Addco Sway Bars Front-Rear
18 X 7.5 and 18 X 8 OEM Porsche Wheels
Recaro Power-Heated seats

[Wildthings]

And it has seen salt, totally absurd. Give me a west coast car with scratched and faded paint over an east coast bondo and paint job any day.

[D Clymer]

Yeah, I saw that one. It makes no sense. A lot of what that customer paid for was converting the van to a Syncro. By the time that's been done, the fact that the van is low mileage doesn't really matter any more because the trann is from a donor as is the front suspension, front diff, prop shaft, etc.

That's definitely an example of someone shopping with them and then getting out of control with additional items. I am not against GoWesty, but it does seem to me that if they had the customer's best interest at heart they would have put him on a waiting list till they could locate a suitable factory Syncro Westy to start with.

David

[lovedavdubs]

I'd like to see him try and insure it against theft, etc.

That's freaking retarded. All it takes is one old lady fiddling with her car radio to run a red light and .........BLAM. 90 grand down the drain. He could have bought 8 or 9 of them for that kind of money. How much reassurance does a guy need. I say if your that concerned with not having to deal with the old(er) vehicle gremlins and BS that come with owning an older vehical. THEN BUY A NEW GOD DAMN VAN!!! I wonder if he'll even carry a tool box. I gotta admit, I would take pleasure in giving him a lift on the side of the road after his first breakdown.

Ok sorry, rant over.

Dubs
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82 Air-cooled Westy (Lola)...My other vehicle is a subway.

[brooklynvan]

For that kind of money I'd put a TDI in, and a butler!
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1990 Vanagon "Plain Jane" Bostig in the Back
TRADED: 1967 Panel for 1976 BMW 2002
SOLD: 1984 Sunroof Vanagon with EJ22
RIP 1986 Saab turbo
and my daily commuter: a Bicycle

[oorwullie]

a few years ago i had call from an american guy saying he wanted to buy as mny syncro westies as i could deliver. he said he'd pay upto US$5000 if they were good.......

i can't remember his name.

[McVanagon]

[vwlovr]

[Dogpilot]

You know, I love Landrovers. I still own #7 & 8 here (I had bunches in Africa that I don't even count), I have always owned one since 1974. I have had a Landrover with a pop top. It was a rattling POS that liked to deploy itself on the freeway (I ended up pulling it all off and selling it). Landrovers have all the fun mechanical issues that Syncros have, and the dealers do not support the older ones. So it is also a great car, you work on as well.

Now what I would like is not a 110 (the 109's are as slow as a diesel Vanagon with the 4, only pathetic with the 6 (a self destructing engine)), but a 130! You can get them with a four door version and you can put the RAF Ambulance back on the pickup bed. With the TDI it is an excellent car. Landrover never imported the TDI into North America, so its not available here, just the V8. So you have to do the, I rebuilt a wrecked 90 defender thing to make it happen. They end up over 100 grand.
http://www.eastcoastrover.com/Defenders.html

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Geology with a Syncro rocks!
86 Syncro Westy AKA "The Bughunter"
98 Disco I
08 Range Rover SC
08 VW Rabbit S
1951 O-1G

[psych-illogical]

I gotta agree. I'd do $50K for the LR over the Syncro (reliability issues be damned). I didn't even know that there were Land Rover/Dormobiles out there.

Or, I'd do my own conversion. I've seen plenty of non Westy Syncros out there for under $10k and I believe I've got the skills and tools to do a top transplant (though probably not the time ). Seems like the easiest and cheapest way to go.

I never cease to be amazed by the fact that there truly are more people out there with more money than they know what to do with. Hence the ease with which GoWesty finds willing customers that just gotta have a Syncro Westy, no matter what the cost.
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83 1/2 Westy waterboxer
'57 Beetle-sold
Coupla '81 BMW motorcycles (R80G/S; R100RS)
'96 BMW R1100GS

[levi]

So, wait a minute.... I'm a little slow.
For 90,000 you get a repaint that's "not quite as good as a gowesty repaint"?
For 90,000 you only get an 87? when a 90-91 would be much better?
For 90,000 they put the stupid "chrome" seals back in the window seals?
Wait! I'm only into the first paragraph! I.... I just CAN'T read the rest of it. I afraid it's going to have a wbx engine in there still..


..........I'm so confused.......
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One of these days I'm gonna settle down,
but till I do I won't be hangin round.
Going down that long lonesome highway,
gonna see life my way

https://youtu.be/cSrL0BXsO40

[wolfsburged]

I love this part:

"Decoupler and solid shaft and all new operating system
-Front and rear locker-ready, does not have either"

So it doesn't even have lockers for $90k+!!!

[bunker108]

No you read it wrong...it will come the lockers, decouplers, 2.5L, solar, DVD etc, etc...for 90K. That is the price with all of the work completed. They are not selling it as is.

I don't see in there where it says that it was converted from a "non" syncro westy?

[Perales]

Here is the toolkit that guy needs to keep his Westy lookin' good.
http://buy1.snapon.com/catalog/item.asp?P65=&t...ir=catalog
For just $6,005.65 Canadian. A bargain, even considering the Canadian Dollar!!
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-- 1987 Westfalia automatic (Captain Vino)

[McVanagon]

[dubaroo]

Thats absolutly crazy

60.000 miles is not that special anyway, well not in england!!

[vwlovr]

[D Clymer]

[Mikees86TransSyncro]

I really don't know what is more sad;

Some schlub paying 3 times the value for a vehicle, or

A company posting & making public how they totally hosed some schlub.


My guess? We can't possibly know the whole story - my guess is that the boot is full of uncut heroin.
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Posted Completed Projects -
Syncro Audi 5000cs Front Disc Brake Conversion
Mercedes 16inch Rims, 225/75-16 Khumho Tires

Pending Postings -
Audi 5000CS Rear Disc Brake Conversion
Front Skid-Plate, bumper, winch install
Full Body Brush Guard

..........Spacers Bad, Bery, Bery Bad.........

[pete000]

I showed those Go Westy Syncro prices to a friend who sold his mint 87 a bunch of years ago for 13 grand. He paid 13 grand for it, drove it a few years then upgraded to Eurovan when they came out. Got more than he paid for it back then, and he thought he did really good !

I think Go Westy average price must be in the 50's Good Grief ! Where do these people get all that cash ! It killed me to buy my 2wd for 7 grand and I am still paying it off !
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1990 Vanagon RS 2.1
1967 Deluxe 21 window
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Koni Shocks
H & R Red Springs
Addco Sway Bars Front-Rear
18 X 7.5 and 18 X 8 OEM Porsche Wheels
Recaro Power-Heated seats