Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 17:54:27 -0500
Reply-To: John Rodgers <j_rodgers@CHARTER.NET>
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From: John Rodgers <j_rodgers@CHARTER.NET>
Subject: Re: Finally got a westy!!!!!!
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Ben, that's really funny!!!!
I enjoyed the story!!!
John Rodgers
88 GL Driver in Birmingham, AL
Ben huot wrote:
> 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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