Price is relative. Your relatives are always expensive. -----Original Message----- From: Eric Woodall <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 6:09 PM To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [tcb] Re: Brian, Brian, Brian I like Derrick and I don't mind his prices. I just think its cool that he's willing to deal. When Dan Martin and I drove up there a few years ago, he had everything I needed and I feel like I got a pretty good price. Not a terrific price, but I didn't feel like hunting and pecking any more. Denis Dodson wrote: > $8500 is the owner's price. He charged you $25 for an original off an > actual bus. He charges whatever he charges. Maybe he liked your friend > more than you. Mid-America probably sold you a Chinese or a Brazilian > repro knockoff. I think that you should think about what you say > before you say it. Derrick may or may not charge too much, but you > certainly have no right to judge him, and you shouldn't insult him in > print. > > I believe that I have heard some knock on every business or person > that has ever sold a VW part. From Steve at Wolfgang to Izzy's safari > windows, Jack at Black Gold to V-Dub Folks in Grand Prairie. Somebody > will say that the stuff was too expensive or crap. > > If you don't like dealing with original salvage of stuff that is > getting incredibly rarer as we speak, that fits and has held up for 40 > years, buy all your stuff from Mid-America, the people who told me, > insisted, that the rubber mat on the floor around the pedals in the > Splitty comes in three pieces. I would put up Derrick's stuff against > their cheap crap any day. > > Let me qualify that statement by saying that Mid-America re-sells > products from outside suppliers, some of them quality. Like Sew-fine > and Wolfsburg West. > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Denning" > <i_am_cool_fred@xxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 12:03 PM > Subject: [tcb] Re: Brian, Brian, Brian > > > > is $8500 derricks price? cause he charged me $25 for a tailight that > cost 10 in mid america...the same tailight i was recommended to buy > from derrick from someone else who only was charged $15 so yea if that > is derricks price divide that by 2 > > guess what i found an idiot in-law...actually a cousin in northern > arkansas that might be interested and i thought i would really test > the waters out there and see what all is out there. i have yet to look > at the bus but through a friend i have heard that it does run and > stop. so that is a plus. i don't really want some ultra-rare never > before seen bus with a bunch of time and money spent on it i want a > project i won't have to unload all my money into the motor and never > have time or money left for body work. i am still focusing all my > energy to hershey right now and am fixing ot start sanding down his > body panels and get him ready for 3 more areas of welding and then > paint. i have an artist lined out to paint the bus with a similar > style graffiti as you would see on a freight train...no hippy crap for > me. and when i am done with the body i might not want a splittie > anymore but for now i am just tired of messing with it. i love driving > it and have recently been driving the holy hell out of it including > the almost 600 mile tract this weekend plus the 300 miles i put on it > last week and the already 40 miles i have put on it today. > > my bus has a flawless engine and that is one thing i will miss, is my > professional built super runner 1600dp with the true full flow system. > > will, you might ask how do i know it is true full flow, well here is > the answer: the oil galley on the left hand side of the case where all > the oil flows from the pump into has been tapped in two different > spots for external lines and a plug has been put in the galley so all > oil has to go through the filter before it hits the engine. and soon, > possibly this weekend there will be a cooler there as well. > > ________________________________> From: coocoo@xxxxxxx> To: > tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [tcb] Brian, Brian, Brian> Date: Mon, 17 > Sep 2007 11:35:08 -0500>> I don't want to knock Bay busses, my best > friends are Bay bus people, but you are not going to find anyone to > trade a Split for a Bay. Splits are getting extremely rare really > quickly. The only way to get one for anything like a realistic price > is to find a complete piece of s*** and restore it. Or have an idiot > for a brother in law.> Somebody, last week or so, left a '64 > walkthrough panel at Wayout. It has small body metal spots and the > floorboard under the driver and passenger is rusted through like Swiss > cheese. The edge of the cargo door floor is rusted out, but that is > about it for the body. It starts and stops and drives. It has head and > tail lights, new glass all around. The owner wants $8500. That is too > much for me, but I can see that it is probably not a bad price for a > running bus.> Good luck. > > _________________________________________________________________ > More photos; more messages; more whatever ? Get MORE with Windows > Live? Hotmail®. NOW with 5GB storage. > http://imagine-windowslive.com/hotmail/?locale=en-us&ocid=TXT_TAGHM_migration_HM_mini_5G_0907 > > > >