[Vwdiesel] Value of 1.6 TD engine: sourcing question

[Stephen Kraus]

That seems a little....steep

On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 5:50 PM, raymond greeley <rgreeley2 at hotmail.com>wrote:

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> I was talking on line to a guy about some of his sale diesel parts. He is
> trying to sell
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> a rebuilt 1.6 (Not sure of extent) td for 2250.00.
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> I hesitate to ask what he wants for the parts to convert my NA to turbo.
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> which brings my question: I am making a round trip from chicago to denver
> via travel van
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> and plan to explore some salvage yards along the way. are there any decent
> yards near
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> I 80 or I 40   that some of you have had success with.
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> r
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> > Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 14:28:05 -0600
> > From: pmdolan at sasktel.net
> > To: AndrewBuc at staxman.net
> > CC: vwdiesel at vwfans.com
> > Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] Value of 1.6 TD engine
> >
> > No.
> >
> > ----- 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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