Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 19:46:56 -0400
Reply-To: Derek Drew <derekdrew@DEREKMAIL.COM>
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From: Derek Drew <derekdrew@DEREKMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Is there anyone under 60 on this list???? WAS:Wife is done
with Vanagon a...
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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
>***********************************
>
>
>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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