<VV> VV-Talk

[Norman Witte]

Well, I'm sorry you don't have it any more, but I am glad you got what you wanted for it.  Did you sign the guy up for VV and VV Talk so that we can send him to smack you around when you have been tippling too much Freedom wine?

Norm 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: alan WESSON [mailto:sidevalve@sidevalve.fsnet.co.uk]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 9:05 AM
> To: Norman Witte; virtualvairs@skiblack.com
> Subject: Re: <VV> VV-Talk
> 
> 
> > Hey, Alan, I know this is talk, but what happened with your 
> van auction?
> Did it sell?  I forgot to watch at the end.
> 
> A result!! It was only bid up to 830 GBP, but I had put a 
> reserve of 2000
> GBP on it - I didn't really expect it to make that, but I 
> thought it was
> worth a try.
> 
> In the end a local guy came round, who had seen it on eBay. 
> He loved it, and
> asked me what the least I would take was. I gave him two options (as I
> always do):
> 
> 1. The 'Gold option' - 1600 GBP ($2880)  for the van as it 
> stands, with all
> the parts needed to fix the engine but not the clutch, and my 
> word that it
> is as seen and straight, and the Alan Wesson Customer Care 
> Guarantee (i.e.
> I'm a nice bloke and you can trust me - which is true, but of 
> course he had
> no way of knowing that!).
> 
> 2. The Platinum Option, which was 1750 GBP ($3150) for the 
> van, a set of new
> tyres I have for it, all the spare parts needed to fix it, 
> the spare doors I
> have for it (6 in all!), all the spare parts I still have 
> (not many but
> probably $100 worth), as much Vair knowledge as I can think 
> of, contacts in
> the club, VV, etc., to help him run it, original 1961 shop 
> manual and 64
> supplement, Underground and Clark's catalogues (don't forget 
> that over here
> no-one knows that Vair parts are easy and cheap to get!), a choice of
> originals and scans of the Corvair literature I have been 
> collecting since
> 1995, and pieces of history and photos of the van when it was 
> in the USA and
> here.
> 
> In the end he went for the Platinum Option. It might sound 
> like a lot to pay
> for a van that needs paint, but don't forget that the *real* 
> purchasing
> power of the GBP versus the $ is actually of the order of 1 : 
> 1, and that it
> actually cost me $2000 to get it through our (stiff) 
> inspection when it got
> here. O.K., so you don't expect to get all your money back 
> when you sell an
> unrestored classic car, but it would have cost him the $2000 
> to import and
> fix a van himself, even if he had got one cheaply over there 
> - so he in fact
> got a bargain. And it really is a good, solid van - I wish I 
> had had the
> time and money to restore it, because it's an easy job.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Alan