Date:         Wed, 24 Nov 2004 12:19:12 -0600
Reply-To:     Stan Wilder <wilden1-1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stan Wilder <wilden1-1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: Calendar Project...........?
Comments: To: Darryl Carpenter <dcarp@HURONTEL.ON.CA>
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Each year someone comes up with a calendar idea that pictures various
Vanagons, Busses etc.
The production cost is normally about $12.00 each on a production run of
1000 calendars.
To break even on the Vanagon calendars they need to sell for about $12.00
each plus the 90 cents postage.
In short ................ the producer normally sells only 400 calendars.
One hundred years from now these will be great collectors items so buy all
you can afford and store them in a safe deposit box at your bank.
Expected value in 100 years would be about $1.20 each.
That won't be quite enough to cover the $12.00 per year safe deposit rental
so be sure you also store lots of aluminum foil and pieces of string to
hedge your investment.
Most frugal VW owners just take the pictures submitted and clip the ones
they like to put on their own calendar they print at home.
As for me, I have enough bad dreams already so I don't need to be flashing
calendar pictures planting material for the next "If I had Only" flashback
or the "If I knew then what I know now flashback".
You can contact Larry Chase at roadguy@roadhaus.com and he'll tell you where
the potential calendar pictures can be viewed.
Just on thing!
Please don't down load the pictueres.
Hold off till the printing date in June 2005 and buy his calendar.

Stan Wilder
Engine Ceramics
214-352-4931
www.engineceramics.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Darryl Carpenter" <dcarp@HURONTEL.ON.CA>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 11:29 AM
Subject: Calendar Project...........?


> Did I miss something? I don't read alot of the email, but I am reminded
> that a member was going to post a site of vanagon pictures (I have seen
> that), make a calendar from the list votes and make it available to
> members at minimal cost. Did all that happen and now its "over"?
> Thanks for any input.
> Darryl
>
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