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PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2015 11:42 am    Post subject: Good deals on bad vans (parts vans/junkers) Reply with quote

Surprised this thread didn't exist yet.

A running sunroof van for $1000.
http://reno.craigslist.org/cto/5344285480.html

$700 Carat.
http://duluth.craigslist.org/cto/5334702241.html

I am going to predict that this thread will pass the "Good deals on nice vans" in about 2 years.

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2015 12:41 pm    Post subject: Re: Good deals on bad vans (parts vans/junkers) Reply with quote

Another sunroof model for $800.
Perhaps I should forget the idea of putting a pop top on my Syncro and just put on a factory sunroof.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2015 12:57 pm    Post subject: Re: Good deals on bad vans (parts vans/junkers) Reply with quote

If I had another tin top syncro I'd be thinking about putting on the sunroof. Probably get more use out of the sunroof than the camper top.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2015 1:07 pm    Post subject: Re: Good deals on bad vans (parts vans/junkers) Reply with quote

if that were within ~5hrs of me it'd be home by now..
I'd totally rock'n a 2tone blue sunroof van as a daily/around town driver...
be great for garage sale'n http://www.jumpingfrog.com/images/magads2/mas1187.jpg


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PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2015 1:15 pm    Post subject: Re: Good deals on bad vans (parts vans/junkers) Reply with quote

A good deals thread is a good deals thread.

Not all vans in the existing thread are perfect, so how is this different from the existing?
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2015 1:24 pm    Post subject: Re: Good deals on bad vans (parts vans/junkers) Reply with quote

noganav wrote:
A good deals thread is a good deals thread.

Not all vans in the existing thread are perfect, so how is this different from the existing?


Nice vans are nice vans and bad vans are not nice vans. For example, a $500 wrecked rusty Westy that doesn't run and is only good for say, a tintop conversion, would not be a candidate for the "nice van" thread but would fit in this thread just fine.
I have been looking for "donor" vans and the "nice vans" thread is the last place I'd expect to find one.
If the existing thread was, as you misstate, just a "good deals" thread, I'd agree.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2015 1:34 pm    Post subject: Re: Good deals on bad vans (parts vans/junkers) Reply with quote

Look at the van in the 4th post. Nice or not? Depends on who is looking.
I think there is likely to be confusion.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2015 2:25 pm    Post subject: Re: Good deals on bad vans (parts vans/junkers) Reply with quote

I recall people being chastised for posting vans in the Nice thread that weren't up to someone's definition of "nice". You can't please all the people all the time. Feel free to not look or post here if you are upset by it, or click the "report" button if you think this thread is violating some rule.

If there is confusion, perhaps someone's parental controls are not set on their browser correctly.

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2015 3:48 pm    Post subject: Re: Good deals on bad vans (parts vans/junkers) Reply with quote

I like the idea of this thread. I'll be following it. Not stop talking whether this thread is valid or not and send us the good deal on nice wrecks !
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2015 4:31 pm    Post subject: Re: Good deals on bad vans (parts vans/junkers) Reply with quote

If this thread was up last year I could have made someone very happy.
There was very low mileage carat that needed a clutch. Went for under a thousand and needed nothing else.
Was on CL for weeks. That sucker was clean clean clean.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2015 4:39 pm    Post subject: Re: Good deals on bad vans (parts vans/junkers) Reply with quote

raoul mitgong wrote:
I recall people being chastised for posting vans in the Nice thread that weren't up to someone's definition of "nice". You can't please all the people all the time. Feel free to not look or post here if you are upset by it, or click the "report" button if you think this thread is violating some rule.

If there is confusion, perhaps someone's parental controls are not set on their browser correctly.

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2015 4:46 pm    Post subject: Re: Good deals on bad vans (parts vans/junkers) Reply with quote

where is the bad deals thread ??
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2015 4:49 pm    Post subject: Re: Good deals on bad vans (parts vans/junkers) Reply with quote

Merian wrote:
where is the bad deals thread ??


That would be the "whine thread".
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2015 8:00 pm    Post subject: Re: Good deals on bad vans (parts vans/junkers) Reply with quote

raoul mitgong wrote:
I recall people being chastised for posting vans in the Nice thread that weren't up to someone's definition of "nice". You can't please all the people all the time. Feel free to not look or post here if you are upset by it, or click the "report" button if you think this thread is violating some rule.

If there is confusion, perhaps someone's parental controls are not set on their browser correctly.

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2015 8:29 pm    Post subject: Re: Good deals on bad vans (parts vans/junkers) Reply with quote

I like both threads, and see the logic in both. Subscribed.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2015 9:47 pm    Post subject: Re: Good deals on bad vans (parts vans/junkers) Reply with quote

http://lasvegas.craigslist.org/zip/5342732569.html

I already posted this to the other. .. I suppose free qualifies as a good deal
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 09, 2015 6:41 am    Post subject: Re: Good deals on bad vans (parts vans/junkers) Reply with quote

danfromsyr wrote:
if that were within ~5hrs of me it'd be home by now..
I'd totally rock'n a 2tone blue sunroof van as a daily/around town driver...
be great for garage sale'n http://www.jumpingfrog.com/images/magads2/mas1187.jpg


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my old '84gl was that color combo, wwasn't too crazy of the color at 1st but 14 yrs later i was, '84's still my favorite. I keep buggin this guy here with one, blown eng, no sell so far probably i'll end up like that old dog finally catching that rabbit, now what do. I do?
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 09, 2015 10:21 am    Post subject: Re: Good deals on bad vans (parts vans/junkers) Reply with quote

Parts available in Kaneohe.

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=1845144

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 09, 2015 4:35 pm    Post subject: Re: Good deals on bad vans (parts vans/junkers) Reply with quote

I was searching for a parts van for a motor/ tranny combo for my 81 transporter. PO said the head gasket on the engine was bad. Pulled the motor,fixed the problem but then never got around to putting the engine back in. After buying it and looking it over closer,only has 65k miles on it and no major rust. No rust at all that I could see. Might be to good to scrap out. All I really need is the tranny. $500 Wink
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 11, 2015 12:34 pm    Post subject: Re: Good deals on bad vans (parts vans/junkers) Reply with quote

http://sandiego.craigslist.org/csd/cto/5355067266.html

86 tintop with a partial subaru conversion asking $3800. Not too much detail on where the owner is in the conversion process, but might be a good deal.
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