[Vwdiesel] Value of 1.6 TD engine

[Patrick Dolan]

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----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew Buc <AndrewBuc at staxman.net>
Date: Sunday, May 24, 2009 1:10 pm
Subject: [Vwdiesel] Value of 1.6 TD engine

> I posted a feeler here a while back (and X-posted to a couple 
> other  
> lists) about the resale value of my '84 Quantum TD wagon. I wound 
> up  
> selling it a few days ago to a guy one of the other lists, but 
> then I  
> had an interesting conversation yesterday.
> 
> A small independent VW-Audi garage has just opened on my block in  
> Seattle. (Yes, I live on a mixed-use residential-commercial 
> block.) I  
> was telling the owner about how I had just sold the Quantum, and 
> he  
> said he'd seen it parked on the street. When I told him what I 
> sold  
> it for, he said, "I wish you'd talked to me first." He went on to 
> say  
> that I could probably have gotten $1200 for the engine, which 
> would  
> have been more than I got for the entire car. I actually parted 
> out a  
> '68 Saab 96 V4 in '91, but there were reasons why the parting-out  
> angle occurred to me then but not now.
> 
> Of course it's water under the bridge now, but out of curiosity,  
> would the engine really have been worth that much, or close to?
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