Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 14:03:37 -0500
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: in the year 2015......
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As I look around at the current run of production cars and consider what
might become a classic twenty years from now I must eliminate every one of
the current cars produced.
I see old VWs, Porsche, Pre-90s Pickup Trucks and a few Vans that have good
strong steel bodies and steel bumpers.
Can you imagine the price of that giant plastic rear bumper on any car
manufactured in the last ten years.
Wow! That rear bumper assembly on a 2005 Chrysler 300 must cost $3000.00
now.
I look at would be candidates like a Chrysler Cross fire and see the plastic
content (Urethane Foam) bumpers and body panels that I know will fail long
before 20 years.
With something like VWs, Porsche, older Pickup Trucks and Vans its mostly
mechanical restorations to keep them on the road and presentable.
On a recent required body repair for my 92 Crown Vic the body shop repaired
the car with Chinese made aftermarket parts consisting of a front grill
(fiber glass originally, plastic now) , lower grill (urethane plastic) and a
new headlight with turn and cornering light (Originally Lexan, now just
clear acrylic plastic).
Guess if the Cops weren't wrecking so many Crown Vics I'd had to buy those
same parts from Ford at hundreds more and had nothing to complain about.
Stan Wilder
Engine Ceramics
214-352-4931
www.engineceramics.com
----- Original Message -----
From: <JordanVw@AOL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 11:02 AM
Subject: in the year 2015......
> 10 years from now, i predict that the only vanagons still existing will
be
> late model campers..a few dokas, and some specialty custom vans. the
> passenger vans will be long gone.. the aircooled vanagons will be gone.
i predict
> that 99% of those vanagons still remaining in 10 years, will have engine
> conversions. they wont be "daily drivers" anymore.. their owners having
sunk so
> much money into them they are afraid to drive them down the street..
>
> Most of the major vendors here on the list will have gone out of
business..
> or expanded their horizons to deal with newer passenger car models..
> Go Westy will be selling groud effect kits and cold air intakes for mk5
> jettas and golfs... and the like..
> :<)
>
> what are some of your predictions?
>
> chris
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