I had the Bay for nearly 7 years and enjoyed every minute of it. Age started working against me and I struggled to complete the interior project. Meanwhile I have the MGB in the garage which deserved to be enjoyed more. Maybe the engine wreck in the Bay was meant to be and forced the sale, which I don't regret as after all I got a fair bit of money for it. My son has 2 T25's and of course I will be staying in touch with the vw scene and on TLB.
All of the Marmitety little ones that have one of them brown signs declaring it a “historic market town” , which roughly translates to “Marmitehole, populated by racist pensioners wearing wolf fleeces”
Ooh, that's one of those words with pictures things. Is it.... Info mansion nationalflowership? Nailed it.
I sold mine last year (march) put up on sites justkampers, pistonheads and carandclasic all for free. Had quite a few from overseas interested (it was a LHD) but sold it to a person who lives not from me. He brought it round a couple of weeks ago to show me now that its finished to his liking and spent £20,000 on it as he wants to keep it for his son who is 15! He also told me that its just been valued at £55,000!!!!I think thats way over the top but he was happy with what he had spent. Good luck with the sale.
Although my son couldn't help with my Bay's predicament, he has a mate who restores our vans as a business and he bought it, so grateful for my son's help in a practical way and save me from messing about advertising it on the usual websites. The van will be restored and with rising values, should make a decent profit.
Assuming your bay wasn’t a complete basket case when you sold it to him. What on earth has he spent 20k on? Surely he could have bought a project for 5k if he was gonna pile that much into one in a year. I’m very very sceptical about whether people genuinely get anywhere near the quoted value from an insurance company if they ever actually try to claim. The last time I had a van smashed up, the insurance company presented me with about a dozen examples of comparable vans and I had to settle on the one that I felt was closest to my written off one. I think it was worth about 8K at the time and they actually gave me a bit more for sign writing and racking etc. They were very fair but if I’d have claimed it was worth 12-16k they’d have laughed at me and said prove it.
