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geo_tonz
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 Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2015 10:31 am Post subject: SCAM: '83 Westy for sale in Vancouver, BC |
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Just in case anyone's looking at this van it's a scam...unless they've done some amazing dash work...Obvious to most but maybe not a Vanny newb...
http://www.kijiji.ca/v-view-details.html?utm_mediu...ail_alerts
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raoul mitgong
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| Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2015 10:41 am Post subject: |
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And if they took the effort to do that dash swap, wouldn't they have corrected the "<- Fuel Door" so it pointed to the right side? Amateurs.
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GreenMachineVW
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| Perhaps the seller just posted the wrong picture? From the rest of the advertisement, the description looks accurate, and it does mention 237k. |
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a2d2
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| Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2015 1:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Perhaps the seller just posted the wrong picture? From the rest of the advertisement, the description looks accurate, and it does mention 237k. |
But... "back up camera".... 
I guess that's cool if it's true but I bet it's not.
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GreenMachineVW
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| Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2015 2:05 pm Post subject: |
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| a2d2 wrote: |
| But... "back up camera".... |
Easy enough with a single DIN pop-out DVD player: I'm sure there are a few on The Samba.
I'm not saying it is or isn't a scam, just that it might not be ... |
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MsTaboo 
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| Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2015 2:57 pm Post subject: Re: SCAM: '83 Westy for sale in Vancouver, BC |
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I don't know whether it's a scam or not, but that picture of the instrument cluster is obviously from a different car, probably a photo mixup. You can see the real cluster in the second photo of the whole dash. Major rust in any case!
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Jennepher
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kamzcab86
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| Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2015 11:19 am Post subject: |
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| GreenMachineVW wrote: |
| a2d2 wrote: |
| But... "back up camera".... |
Easy enough with a single DIN pop-out DVD player: I'm sure there are a few on The Samba. |
Dash shows a pop-out screen, so it's entirely possible it does have a back-up camera.
The offending non-Vanagon instrument cluster photo has been removed from the listing as of this post.
I'm inclined to believe it's not a scam, but the price is rather amusing ($8888.88 ).
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wcdennis
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| Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2015 11:20 am Post subject: |
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| The ad is fixed now. Probably a photo mix-up. You can see the back-up camera in photo #5 over the license plate. |
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Ahwahnee
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| Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2015 3:12 pm Post subject: |
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| kamzcab86 wrote: |
| ...I'm inclined to believe it's not a scam, but the price is rather amusing ($8888.88 ). |
Or disturbing if you consider the significance of the number '88' in a neo-Nazi context. |
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furrylittleotter
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| Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2015 10:29 am Post subject: |
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Or maybe they just mixed up a photograph?
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