Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 19:10:27 -0500
Reply-To: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Is there anyone under 60 on this list???? WAS:Wife is done
with Vanagon a...
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My plan is to raise my grandson and granddaughters to appreciate the
Vanagon for what it is, which they already do, in hopes that they are
someday ready to receive it and take care of it.
So far, so good.
Jim
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Derek Drew <derekdrew@derekmail.com> wrote:
> Every freaking one of us, just about, is 60 give or take a decade.
>
> So, the Vanagon scene is going to die out *all at once* in about 20
> years from now when we stop carrying ignition keys.
>
> In fact, I predict that it will die out in exactly the year 2030 like
> a rock falling out of a building.
>
> This will be the end of the VW-van-boomers bouncing off what happened
> in 1968 and the promise of a better less restricted life and being
> imprinted with some meaning from the idea of VW vans with engines in the
> back.
>
> The people who were five years old in 1968 were not imprinted as
> strongly with this.
>
> There are parallels to what is going to happen with the end of the
> baby boomers and the destruction of the social security system
> economically.
>
> In other words.... if you want to sell your Vanagon to get your money
> back out of it, you should sell it in the next 10 years before our
> group begins pealing off or losing their driver's licenses due to old
> age because then there will be a flood on the market of vans being
> sold by old timers and fewer people to replace those fanatics.
>
> The only thing that can stop the flood is if the owners decide to
> bequeath the vans to their sons or grandsons. But many of these
> people won't really have the patience, so don't expect them to have
> the commitment that we did. Then *they* will sell their rigs onto the
> market, or let them rust into oblivion. You can't exactly say, "Oh,
> its easy, just read the posts from Samba, Vanagon List, and
> Yahoo vanagon groups and you will be all set with this vehicle. You
> only have 1 million posts to read and understand and you will be in
> total control."
>
> I myself will singlehandedly keep the scene going until 2040 because
> I won't stop driving the vans until I crash *all* of mine due to old
> age (or off-roading them too hard).
>
>
> At 02:11 PM 7/11/2013, you wrote:
>
>> Buncha young squirts out here Mark....60 myself in April
>>
>> VWs since 1961, Buses since 1967, Vanagons since 1992 (An 80 POS and my
>> two
>> current 84s)
>>
>> --
>> Jim Thompson
>> 84 GL 1.9 "Gloria"
>> 84 Westfalia 2.1 "Ole Putt"
>> 72 411 Station Wagon "Pug"
>> 75 914 1.8 "Nancy"
>> Full Timing From March 1999 To January 2012
>> oldvolkshome@gmail.com
>> http://www.oldvolkshome.com
>> Find me on Facebook:
>> http://www.facebook.com/**people/Jim-Thompson/**100000710343835<http://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Thompson/100000710343835>
>> *************************************
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Mark Dearing <VWBrain@aol.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I just turned 60 later mark d
>> >
>> >
>>
>
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