Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 11:42:28 -0700
Reply-To: Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
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From: Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: The TRUTH about Vanagons
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We bought our Westy from a woman who is the head of a county's adoption services here and I'm convinced had we not met her stringent requirements we would have have been permitted to purchase her "Max."
Stephen
--- On Fri, 5/21/10, Joe T. <vanagon85@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
From: Joe T. <vanagon85@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: The TRUTH about Vanagons
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Date: Friday, May 21, 2010, 12:33 PM
Outstanding. I think this should be required reading for anybody
considering Vanagon ownership.
Selling a Vanagon is more like interviewing prospective adoptive parents, as
far as I'm concerned!
Joe T.
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Andrew Martin <ramblinvan@gmail.com> wrote:
> It's Friday so if the spam police would kindly sit on their hands...
>
>
>
> Someone recently inquired about the 85 Westy I'm "thinking" about selling.
> I responded early one morning before I'd had enough coffee and later in the
> day I reread what I'd written. I've seen and heard way too many
> heartbreaking stories about folks who'd bought Vanagons and were
> disappointed so I was trying to project what I believe to be the "THE
> TRUTH"
> about Vanagons. I'd probably clean it up a little before getting etched on
> my tombstone but I liked it enough to share it...ON FRIDAY.
>
>
>
>
>
> "Please don't take this the wrong way BUT owning, driving and maintaining a
> Vanagon is not for everyone. They require much more regular care and
> attention than a modern vehicle BUT they will return the best traveling,
> vacation and life memories like no other vehicle could possibly provide.
> They're as unusual and quirky as the people who love them and everything
> bad
> you've ever heard about them is probably true. I have often advised
> curious
> folks NOT to buy one but without at least one myself, my life would not be
> complete."
>
>
>
> "Oh and on the day you buy a Vanagon Westfalia (mine or anyone else's) you
> will have also gained an amazing and possibly insane group of new friends
> that will welcome you into their homes, driveways, and camp sites around
> the
> globe. Be prepared to wave to every Vanagon you pass, talk endlessly about
> what tires you have and what oil you prefer and show inquisitive strangers
> (who drive million $$ motor homes) how easily the top pops up!"
>
>
>
> (Spam delivery complete.)
>
>
>
>
>
> Andrew
>
> Bainbridge Island WA
>
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Joe T.
'85 Wolfsburg Westy Subie 2.2
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