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Date:         Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:35:16 -0400
Reply-To:     Mike Collum <collum@VERIZON.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Mike Collum <collum@VERIZON.NET>
Subject:      Re: daily driver = RUST Re: Friday Ramblings, probably long,
              possibly pointle...
Comments: To: JordanVw@AOL.COM
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JordanVw@AOL.COM wrote:

> the definition of a beater car is one you dont have to put constant money > into, one you can just run into the ground. > > the vanagon doesnt fit that definition..

I don't know, Chris ... I guess it just depends.

My '84 7 passenger was given to me in '91 with a bad engine. Including replacing that engine with a used one, I've put less than $1,000 into it in 16 years and it's been a daily driver the whole time. Of course, I have done all my own work on it. I shipped it from Hawaii to California and drove it to Texas then on to Maine. It has made 7 round trips from Maine to Tennessee and is the one I used when I drove from Maine to your place to pick up a middle seat for my Westy.

I should paint the energizer bunny on the side.

Mike


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