Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 09:35:35 -0500
Reply-To: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject: Re: WBX Whining
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Still comes down to: Why would anyone want four or five of the same
vehicle in their driveway ?
Unless each had some particular feature that made it a very desirable car
to own its just a futile investment in not-so-popular, never to be
collectable cars that you can't even get full coverage insurance on in
most cases.
It doesn't matter if they are air or water or diesel, unless it has some
special features like a Westy its just not going to appreciate in value.
I'll just bet the guy that abandoned his Chevys and Fords and Oldsmobiles
on the highway doesn't have four more at home just like it.
There isn't any shortage of Bays, Vanagons, Syncro, Westy, I can always
find 300 for sale on the Internet but I'm not motivated and most people
aren't motivated to fill their driveways with them.
Stan Wilder
On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 10:08:19 -0400 David Brodbeck <gull@CYBERSPACE.ORG>
writes:
> On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Stan Wilder wrote:
>
> > I wouldn't question whether one of your Vanagons might make it
> trouble
> > free from East to West coast trip but; would you ever leave home
> without
> > tools and spare parts? It doesn't matter if it's a Splittie,
> Bay,
> > Vanagon or a Subaru conversion almost everybody expects trouble
> and
> > unfortunately they have it on their trips.
>
>
> --> I'd say that's par for the course with vehicles that are going
> on 20
> years old. Yes, most people with other cars don't carry tools, but
> most
> other cars can't be fixed on the side of the road anyway -- if my
> Honda
> breaks down, odds are it's not going to be something I can fix in a
> rest area parking lot. Most people in that situation just have
> their car
> towed to the nearest dealer, but for most VW's that's not an option.
> VW
> dealers don't want to see anything over 7 years old.
>
> I see lots of abandoned Chevys and Fords and Oldsmobiles along the
> freeway, here. Breakdowns arenot an experience only had by VW
> owners.
> ANd you know, you're less likely to hear from the guy who took a
> 3,000
> mile trip in his VW and didn't break down than you are from the guy
> whose
> engine blew up in Podunk.
>
> But, you know, no one's forcing you to drive a Veedub. If you can
> find
> a newer vehicle that fills the same need, buy it and save yourself
> the
> trouble you're obviously having.
>
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> Ypsilanti, MI
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