warren
03-20-2006, 05:47 PM
On Saturday night, the Peninsula VW Club had dinner at the German Music Store and Café in Yorktown (awesome food by the way).
During dinner, a couple of members told us about a lady in a neighboring town who needed to get rid of an inoperable old VW van (or two). She'd asked if the club would be interested in taking them off her hands. She is moving out of state and won't take them with her, and she really didn't want them to go to the crusher.
Met the rest of the club members at 1 pm and we caravaned over to the lady's house. she had a LOT of stuff. we actually "rescued" THREE old vans---a Westfalia camper, and two Transporters. The Westy and one of the Transporters are salvageable, and we'll use the other one Transporter as a donor car...she also asked us to take the rest of her VW stuff...a couple of engines, cases, engine parts, etc. and she thinks there are at least two more engines buried somewhere in her garage.
A long afternoon. Good thing we had ten people show up to help, and most of us were there from 1 pm til 8, when we finally dropped off the last van.
Learned all kinds of new skills...creative tree-trimming, taking down (and putting up) chain link fences, and ground guiding tow vehicle and old van through numerous yard obstacles...managed to get them out of the backyard without bending any sheet metal. :wink:
the lady who gave us the van shed a few tears when the vans were towed away...a lot of memories for her, and she thanked us for keeping 'em in the VW family. although it may take a year or two to get the vans back on the road, we're going to send her some photos when the two vans are finished. a great day.
During dinner, a couple of members told us about a lady in a neighboring town who needed to get rid of an inoperable old VW van (or two). She'd asked if the club would be interested in taking them off her hands. She is moving out of state and won't take them with her, and she really didn't want them to go to the crusher.
Met the rest of the club members at 1 pm and we caravaned over to the lady's house. she had a LOT of stuff. we actually "rescued" THREE old vans---a Westfalia camper, and two Transporters. The Westy and one of the Transporters are salvageable, and we'll use the other one Transporter as a donor car...she also asked us to take the rest of her VW stuff...a couple of engines, cases, engine parts, etc. and she thinks there are at least two more engines buried somewhere in her garage.
A long afternoon. Good thing we had ten people show up to help, and most of us were there from 1 pm til 8, when we finally dropped off the last van.
Learned all kinds of new skills...creative tree-trimming, taking down (and putting up) chain link fences, and ground guiding tow vehicle and old van through numerous yard obstacles...managed to get them out of the backyard without bending any sheet metal. :wink:
the lady who gave us the van shed a few tears when the vans were towed away...a lot of memories for her, and she thanked us for keeping 'em in the VW family. although it may take a year or two to get the vans back on the road, we're going to send her some photos when the two vans are finished. a great day.