Date:         Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:24:44 -0600
Reply-To:     Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
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From:         Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
Subject:      Re: buy a daily driver or press the syncro into service?
Comments: To: Mark Tuovinen <mst@ak.net>
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It's been a few years, and I don't recall the details, but I couldn't
just "call up." It had to be done on exactly 6-month intervals. Not
for me.

Jim


On Jan 29, 2007, at 1:21 PM, Mark Tuovinen wrote:

> What was complicated about it?  I did that for years with my
> classic Mustangs and do it now with our Westy Syncro on both
> Allstate and Geico policies.  In the Spring we call them up and
> activate the full policy so we can drive the vehicle and in the
> Fall we call and suspend the portions that would apply to a vehicle
> being driven leaving necessary coverage for a vehicle in storage.
> No hassles involved just one call does it all.  I supppose that it
> could be our agents are more familiar with doing this as it is
> common in our climate to store classic cars, RV's, motorcycles,
> snow mobiles, etc, for the off season.
>
> Mark in AK
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
> Date: Monday, January 29, 2007 8:35 am
> Subject: Re: buy a daily driver or press the syncro into service?
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>
>> When I used Allstate for insurance, they had some complicated
>> scenario where you could insure for part of the year and not for some
>> other part of the year. Since ice and snow are not an issue around
>> here except rarely, there was never a reason not to drive either of
>> the vanagons because it was "put away" for the winter. So, I ended up
>> wanting to drive the camper when I was working on the Carat, and vice
>> versa, or for some other reason. So that arrangement didn't work out
>> for me as it might for others. I solved the problem (sort of) by
>> switching to Geico, saving so much money that it didn't really
>> matter. All that being said, I'm still paying to insure a third car,
>> so I could save $240 a year by dropping one or the other, but the
>> convenience of having a spare car when you only drive vanagons and
>> the savings of driving the diesel over the waterboxer seems worth it
>> to me.
>>
>> Jim
>>
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