Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 07:54:28 -0800
Reply-To: Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Bentley Manual
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Dear traveling costs
purchasing a vanagon immediately places the owner into a category of groups
that says he is conscious of the price of travel ...
a category of groups that also says now that he has his own accommodations
and chuckwagon on board ... he can travel anywhere there is terra ferma as
cost consciously as he chooses
but more to the point ....
the message is in the medium as stated ... with his computer he can
search the inventory of used book stores the world over and have the item
shipped to is door ... likely in a Sprinter ...so he may then continue to
build his beautiful vanagon right from the comfort of his own chair in his
own house ...
so the process as i see it is thus
search the internet for a good used vanagon --
carfax the details online --
purchase through email and pay using paypal --
using internet research shipping companies that will pick up and deliver
newly acquired vanagon... choose and utilize one paying through paypal or
credit card --
while waiting delivery of vanagon use internet to research best insurance
available and purchase same online --
also join several vangon dedicated groups with their home and base on the
internet ... solicit help after introducing your self as new comer seeking
advice and wisdom
after vanagon is delivered tell onlne community it looks great in your yard
but their are a few issues you need to sort out after you get a bentley
...(which you discovered you needed through discussions online -- after you
had paid for the vanagon) --
join roadside assistance group after extensive online vanagon community
discussion about the pros and cons of every form of road side assitance
ever made availble to mankind ... including one apocryphal tale about some
guy in a red bus breaking down on crumbfest eve
http://www.peibooks.ca/ChildrensBooks/TheTrueMeaningofCrumbfest.html --
make pals online with someone in the vanagon community who owns etka ripped
copy (they send you one) and after hours of research at your computer you
discover you need to order lots of parts and some specialized tools ...
so you order them after discussions with various people online about the
best and worst of vendors ... and in the course of the discussion you
discover that every other vanagon owner has at least one half of a parts
van in the yard or basement but every other vanagon owner online declares
that doing business with any of them is more suspect than any of the
vendors who are really only out for themselves and are likely going to rip
you off regardless of actual service or customer appreciation order
inclusions --
parts arrive and begin to pile up in your shop and garage ...
you fill your time watching youtube videos about how to remedy all that
ails your vanagon and once you have become fully versed in vanagon language
and the differences in parts between years and the various modifications
you can make ... you immerse yourself in a blog from quebec and find your
self understanding how to repair event he most complicated and broken of
vanagons and some guy from the bowels of oregon advises you to grease oil
and lubricate parts that you didnt even know were accessible once the
vanagon left the production line --
two and a half years pass ..... .... .... .... during which you twice renew
insurance online and change vendors once due to online discussion about
what awful rotten people exist at your first choice insurance co .... ....
.... .... .... and they are rotten because the agent refuses to pay out the
14K$$ in parts with receipts added to the van since purchase after shoping
cart scratched vanagon declared totaled --
your significant other is beginning to see notices on facebook about the
insignificant others collection of parts and the vanagon in your yard --
your significant other begins to make subtle comments that allude to your
children's financial and educational future --
you discover a much nicer and more exotic vehicle while you are online
researching something about ethanol and german engineering in a post
modern world --
you list your vanagon on graigs list or kijjijji ... with nice photos from
any old vanagon brochure of or about the same time (decade) --
sell same and accept pay pal payment --
order that exotic vehicle you saw .... pay with pay pal --
those who are truly dedicated will go the extra step (no no not going out
to work on the vanagon) the extra step of putting in storage ) --
you return to your computer (which you have actually yet to leave now that
iphone and ipad let you do email etc while in the can ) and send an email
to the vanagon group that you are free of the vise of vanagon and wish to
no longer receive updates or emails from them (same as telling your best
friend you no longer wish to hang around with them because you now have an
audi 7309 sq and are no longer interested in volkswagon stuff the way they
are) ---
regards
On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Joy Hecht <jhecht@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> Jon didn't say where he is, though. The cost of getting to Utah to go to
> that used bookstore in Logan might be prohibitive!
>
>
>
> Joy
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Buese Thomas <tombuese@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > I got my nice complete Bentley in a used bookstore in Logan Utah for $16,
> > IIRC.
> >
> > YMMV,
> >
> > Mr. BZ-never to many bookstores
> >
> >
> >
> > On Jan 1, 2012, at 9:52 AM, Roger Whittaker wrote:
> >
> > Dear starting the new year with desire for solutions
> >>
> >> It is my thought that you may require some direction and if I may be so
> >> bold as to offer such - please read on -
> >>
> >> In the age of the internet- iPhone - Siri - Et al - your every request
> is
> >> within the very medium you have used to make your request - indeed as
> is
> >> the answer to all your Questions - within the medium used to make the
> >> request -
> >>
> >> You have only to broaden your search a little to discover the sought
> >> after Bentley with the more important requirement of its cheapness -
> which
> >> is a relative term as those with $$$$$$ and spend thrifts like my self
> may
> >> consider having the book as a value in itself negating the cost of
> >> acquiring same - those with $$$$ and an ability to assuage the instant
> >> gratification genome may see any price as excessive until their uncle
> dies
> >> and leaves them an unread copy containing no finger prints or other
> marks
> >> of successful mechanical apprenticeship -
> >>
> >> You dear reader may satisfy both your needs regardless of your personal
> >> bent
> >>
> >> Using Siri or google or dogpile or even Wikipedia you will discover
> >> hundreds for sale in every condition imaginable -
> >> Located in amazon land or powell's books (my own favorite) - maybe that
> >> really neat Denver book store ---- dirty books or what ever - right in
> the
> >> heart of denver - with attached record shop and print on demand espresso
> >> book machine
> >>
> >> You may also begin to cruise garage sales and local used book stores in
> >> your area (where ever that may be)
> >>
> >> There is a word of cation you may exercise in your efforts - random
> >> requests into the world of the Internet for such things as a Bentley
> cheap
> >> may lead to compart lots and smashed and burned Bentley autos - or to
> that
> >> girl I used to know in high school Bentley Williamson who found herself
> in
> >> a love triangle and the two fellows both called her cheap at
> >> girlsimissedouton.com
> >>
> >> Or you may be very lucky and find one laying in the back of a wrecked
> >> vanagon
> >>
> >> Good luck and happy new year
> >> Regards
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> There must be a lifetime of thought in the last second if we are to live
> >> from moment to moment.
> >>
> >> On 2012-01-01, at 7:17 AM, jon durham <jon_durham@KNOLOGY.NET> wrote:
> >>
> >> does anyone have a relatively cheap source for the Bentley manual 85
> >>> Vanagon?
> >>> --
> >>> “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the
> >>> way its animals are treated” --Gandi
> >>>
> >>
>
--
roger w
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