Date:         Thu, 29 Dec 2005 17:33:40 -0600
Reply-To:     John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
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From:         John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
Subject:      Re: crazy prices for splittys
Comments: To: JordanVw@AOL.COM
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Go to Alaska, ramble around in the brush and you will find all kinds of
Splitties hanging out there ..... abandoned long ago by hippie travelers
going to "The Promised Land".... only to find it wasn't there either.
But the trip in those days succeeded in killing off a bunch of their
splitties. That 1450 miles of rough gravel road back then was enough to
kill many a vehicle, or at least casue it's early demise. In the good
old days, vehicles went to Alaska and they never returned.

With the paved roads of today, it's not quite as bad, though it still
happens. A few days before moving back south, I saw a Westy Syncro
sitting on the side of the road. It was a bit rough, but much could have
been done with it. Price tag on it said $200  OBO and had a phone
number. It had come up from the states .... had a Washington tag on it.
. At the time I had a spiffy 85 GL that was running good, and I was
headed down the ALCAN so I sure didn't need another van. I just kept on
trucking.

But the old splitties are out there..... I's seen'em!! A good place to
hunt is Happy Valley down below Soldotna on the Kenai Peninsula on the
road to home. Lot's of those old hippies settled there. So guess why
it's called Happy Valley?? Used to be you could drive down through that
smokey hollow on the way to Homer and come out on the other side feeling
"Goooood!"

Yep, lots of old dead splitties back in those woods!

John Rodgers
88 GL  Driver

JordanVw@AOL.COM wrote:

>look at this...
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>http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=256794
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>splittys are fetching killer money these days... even in rough shape..
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>euopeans are buying california splittys and shipping them back to europe!!!
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>amazing stuff...
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