Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 06:23:44 -0400
Reply-To: Chris S <szpejankowski@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Chris S <szpejankowski@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: "Do ya wanna trade?"
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8 to 10 a day? Wow! During my most recent visit to South Africa I
only saw 3-4 per day
Chris.
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Dnia Apr 10, 2011 o godz. 22:22 Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM
> napisał(a):
> Down in San Diego, my '71 loaf got attention. I sold that to the same
> couple that bought our house. Took the Westy with me when we moved.
>
> Here in Central Oregon, I must see anywhere between 8 to a dozen
> Vanagons a day, and not the same ones. Some are beaters, some
> immaculate. Westys are not uncommon. The local boneyard never has a
> van
> in it, their parts are scavenged off before they hit the ground.
>
> --
> Rocky J Squirrel
>
>
>
> On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 18:47 -0700, Robert Fisher wrote:
>
>> I pulled in at the grocery store next to a woman that was trying to
>> shoehorn
>> two kids and a buttload of groceries into what looked like an old
>> Honda or
>> the like. I don't have the middle seat in at present, and the
>> boosters/car
>> seat are on the back bench; she stood up and looked into the side
>> window and
>> said "Ohmigod, look at all that space...!" Then she said "That's
>> one of
>> those classic vans... do they cost much?" (She may have been
>> confusing it
>> with a loaf, actually.) One of the kids was diggin' it but I didn't
>> pick out
>> what she was saying because I was listening to the mom. I'm sure to
>> her it
>> looked like a rolling freight container right then... room for days
>> plus
>> kids' seats. : )
>>
>> I told her she could probably get one in decent shape for around
>> four grand.
>> That's the number that popped into my head for a passenger van, but
>> I really
>> haven't looked lately. I didn't go into the whole spiel of cost/
>> difficulty
>> of upkeep and so on, as I figured it highly unlikely she'd ever
>> really get
>> one, assuming she could find it. I did tell her I paid $300 for it
>> but had
>> to rebuild the engine and tranny in short order. (Even with that I
>> don't
>> think I have more than $1400 into the thing for getting it on the
>> road and
>> reliable-like.)
>> I still think (and I know that this is preaching a well-worn sermon
>> to the
>> choir) that a modernized, mid-priced Vanagon layout would sell in
>> bunches
>> and droves. It might take some heavy PR to overcome the perceptions
>> of
>> front-end safety, but every body's afraid of something on a car.
>> Too bad we
>> won't see it.
>>
>> Like many of you I occasionally get ppl that walk up and ask about
>> the van;
>> the expression on their faces when they actually look through the
>> windows is
>> priceless. In the back of my mind I always think they're thinking
>> "My god,
>> it's full of stars!" hehe
>> --
>> Cya,
>> Robert
>>
>> '87 & '86 Auto GLs
