Date:         Wed, 24 Nov 2004 08:10:54 -0800
Reply-To:     jbange <hfinn@INGRATES.NET>
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From:         jbange <hfinn@INGRATES.NET>
Subject:      Re: 1989 Carat Vanagon For Sale... Southern Pennsylvania
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>>Heh. Isn't the definition of a Syncro owner "someone with more money than
>>sense"?
>>Of course, that could possibly be said about ANY of us Vanagon owners...

>Uh, have you priced NEW cars recently?
>We're in a group, all right, but perhaps "more PATIENCE than sense"
>would be more apt!

Yeah, that's probably more accurate, but it doesn't sound as humorous. A
Vanagon is probably cheaper in the long run than a new car, but a Vanagon
requires intermittent expenditures of what most people would consider
fairly large sums of money. A new car, on the other hand, just takes like
three to six hundred dollars a month, every month, till the End of Time (or
five years, whichever comes first). Personally, I like the challenge of
having to decide "buy the SA grille kit, or save it for the new engine I'll
surely need soon"....

John Bange
'90 Vanagon "Geldsauger"