Date:         Wed, 9 May 2012 09:01:29 -0700
Reply-To:     Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Best way to judge life left in Waterboxer?
Comments: To: David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net>
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Europe has always been into small campers, er, caravans.  We Americans, not
so much.  I'm still amazed at how many of my contemporaries (I'm 65) are
lusting after big RVs.  I guess if you live in it or have a large family
including grandkids that you camp with it makes sense.  But, I'm on my
fourth VW camper, and my goal is for each of my kids to get one too!  I'll
probably pass my '85 down and get a '91!  I've got it baaadddd!

Now if Sportsmobile would just go back to their roots and convert the Ford
Transit LWB when it comes over . . .

Stuart

-----Original Message-----
From: David Beierl [mailto:dbeierl@gmail.com] On Behalf Of David Beierl
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 10:48 PM
To: Stuart MacMillan
Cc: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Best way to judge life left in Waterboxer?
At 01:01 AM 5/9/2012, Stuart MacMillan wrote:
>Last time I checked it was over £50,000, or about $80,000.  They have 

>those pesky value added taxes in the UK though.  Still, it would never 
>be

Sigh...my family had friends from England who came over to race
International 14 dinghies (he was an orthopod and they later emigrated to
New Zealand).  They brought their T2 caravan with them and I instantly fell
in love.  They explained that in UK there was a tax on automobiles but not
on caravans, so there were a number of companies that would do a minimum
qualifying conversion for the price of the tax.  So you could have whichever
you wanted, same price.  This would have been  around '68-9.

Yours,
David