Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 17:37:57 -0500
Reply-To: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject: Re: Finally got a westy!!!!!!
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We've got a pretty good idea about how your Blue Westy looks.
However we're having some trouble visualizing your girlfriend please
post some pictures (not the van)
Stan Wilder
On Mon, 27 May 2002 17:56:52 -0400 Ben huot <huotx@VIDEOTRON.CA> writes:
> Before I bought my van I spent sometime reading on the subject, here
> an
> elsewhere. I said to my self, what a bunch of crazy people (to stay
> polite), they all know the different problem associated to this
> vehicle but
> they are keeping it!!! Why would an intelligent (not so much..)
> human been
> (we are alien) would buy a problem-van like that. Bunch of crasy
> people (to
> stay polite). After reading so many horror story on different web
> site and
> forum I said to my girlfriend (she is the one that wanted a
> Westfalia, she
> said if we don't go to Europe this year let's buy a Westfalia, I
> reply;
> what's that, an Alien space ship with a 95 hp engine he he he!)
> NEVER I
> will buy that piece of crap, it's insulting my intelligence (I have
> some,
> once in a while when I'm not drunk!!! (joke, of course----------NOT)
> I
> showed her all the horror story in question and she said; to bad, we
> could
> have some fun traveling it that ----cute--- van! (cute van my ass,
> near
> nowhere with a rod out the case spilling oil everywhere) BUT, with
> those
> beautiful cute blue eyes (not even sure which color they are even
> today
> after 6 years) she convince me to buy one anyway.. (at the time,
> every
> other American made van were looking like a better choice than a
> westy, I
> have seen many cheap old GM, Dodge and Ford van... They could have
> been an
> OK choice for the price. long story!)
>
> Yea, this little blue van in a little blue garage (with 5 people
> waiting
> after me to see If I would buy it, they were ready to buy those
> bastard!)
> with a great interior and a very higher price than the American made
> van
> also. So I called her and she came to see the little blue bastard
> (the Van)
> while the next guys after me keep saying, if you don't take the van
> I
> will!! Bastard! (The guy) so we bought the van (with a very rusty
> engine,
> see my site) and I said to my self; well the good news is that I
> won't have
> a hard time selling the bastard (the van). After many small problem
> and
> many hours finding them, we did a 33K km (18K miles) summer without
> spending the price of the van, at all. And my girlfriend is in love
> with
> the little Bastard (not the guy, the van) and I guess me too...
>
> By the way, I paid $11500 CAD for it; I put $3000 in parts,
> maintenance,
> cleaning and bolts, but no labour (that's the key of owning a Westy
> (yea
> everything $$$ we put on her (or his if you prefer) as been
> accounted for)
> So the price you put on a westy is proportional with the condition
> of this
> one, a 2.1L westy in Quebec is worth at least $14000 CAD in in good
> condition, at least. I have decline $16500 CAD last week. I said to
> the
> guy, go to hell you bastard (joke).
>
> Ps.: sorry about the Bastard word but at the time this is the way I
> was
> feeling.
>
> Cheers, Ben
> http://pages.infinit.net/eurokit/
>
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