Absolutely correct insight. A community of lunatics that keeps doing the same thing over and over again hoping the results will be different. My kids managed to avoid catching this disease, unlike you! We had great times travelling in our '68 Westy starting when they were both toddlers, and it continued until they were in their mid-teens with my '84 Westy. Later they would each borrow the '84 for their own local trips, but now they wonder what I was thinking when I bought my "new" '85 last year, figuring I'm in my dotage and should simply be humored. For them it's now using friend's timeshares, exotic travel, and a once a year family camping trip with us in our van, one family in a tent and the other in a sailboat moored at Fort Flagler (only place I've found in Washington where we can do that). I don't blame them. I sold the '84 because it was underpowered and horrible to drive, and bought an EVC. That was a great driver, but a money pit and inferior camper, and now I'm back to a gutless '85 that is horrible to drive. I can only hope the Subaru conversion will make it more tolerable. If not, maybe the future Ford Transit conversions will be sensible: http://westfalia-ford.co.uk/elevated%20roof/index.html $46,000 base price in Britain. I wonder what Sportsmobile or Roadtrek would charge for theirs. Stuart Jarrett wrote: ......I'll admit my bias here: I grew up with VW campers, and so I own one now. Because I own one, I like hanging out with folks share that lunacy. . . . Jarrett K Olly, 89 Westy made up of parts, parts, parts= |
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