Date:         Sat, 18 Jan 2003 08:33:44 -0500
Reply-To:     "G.M.Bulley" <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         "G.M.Bulley" <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
Organization: Bulley-Hewlett
Subject:      Re: Should I buy this 91 Vanagon GL--Will it bring me happiness
              and              joy?
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Who can tell what will bring you happiness? Some lottery winners are
miserable, while some cancer victims revel with each new day; it is all
perspective.

Vanagon are fun, comfortable, slightly dorky, increasingly archaic,
solid, HUGE, flexible, semi-efficient, fairly-low-maintenance, easy to
clean, fairly safe, somewhat nimble, and one of the last vehicles VW
made that had lots of human hands on it during assembly. The old beetles
and busses were mostly hand assembled, and they have lots of human vibes
in them, that's why the "feel good" as soon as you get in them. The new
VW stuff is mostly machine assembled, very few vibes, and 'cold' when
you get in. The Vanagon has some vibes in it.

Anywho... the price is good. The maintenance sounds outstanding. If you
like all the above-mentioned notions, buy it. Then buy some curtains for
it, some 12volt chili-pepper Christmas lights, a decent bottle of wine,
some fruit, some cheese, and turn the interior into a "Love-Shack" for
an evening. Take your wife out for a little romance, and little
van-rocking passion, and endear her to the van. ;-) She won't complain
as much when it needs a $200 hose, or a $59 little clamp.

Bringing ideas to life,
G. Matthew Bulley
Bulley-Hewlett
www.bulley-hewlett.com
AIM = IExplain4u
+1.919.658.1278
"Fax mentis incendium gloria culpum"