Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 11:43:11 -0700
Reply-To: Scott Daniel <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Organization: Cosmic Reminders
Subject: Re: Idea about going to warmer climate for winter and servicing
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Florida certainly would be 10 times more reasonable, logistically speaking.
You can easily haul tools and equipment by freeway to there, ,make
short trips back north if you need to etc.
Hawaii, logistically speaking, is a lot more complicated and expensive.
Likely muchmore expensive to live in too.
If you want to ship a vehicle there from the West Coast ...figure a good
1,000 bucks. They don't allow the vehicle to be filled with stuff either.
I know one vanagon guy there, on Oahu, rents out Westy's. Isuspect he's
not the vanagon technician you speak of. He rents a ordinary 3 bedroom
house..I think his rent is $ 2,800 per month, to give you an idea about
what it costs to live there.
Food costs more there too, like regular 'white man' food in grocery
stores. Then there's the traffic and the funky roads ..lol.
I would be curious who that vanagon person there you mention is.
I'd think there are lots of places in the Eastern US that have mild
winters that could work for you. I'm sure your northern clients would be
happy to have an excuse to drive down and have you do some work on their
vansas well, so they could get south too for a while. Like everybody wins.
Scott
On 9/14/2013 5:59 AM, kenneth wilford (Van-Again) wrote:
> I am super busy here in NJ working on Vanagons and Westies for customers.
> However the dreaded winter is coming and even though I have a heated shop,
> etc. I really would like to go somewhere that is nice and warm outside
> during the winter months, yet still help customers and work on Vanagons for
> them. I had been tossing this idea around in my mind for a few days and
> trying to figure out how it could happen when I got a call from a customer
> in Hawaii. He tells me that in Oahu that there are tons of Vanagons and
> only one trusted mechanic that can work on them. He is super booked up
> (sounds familiar) so the customer suggested I could come out there and be
> as busy as I would want to be repairing vans. Of course it is never that
> simple. I have a wife and four kids so I would need air fare and also a
> place to stay while I am there and a shop to work out of or use as a home
> base.
>
> I am also thinking that Florida might be a good choice for this idea since
> all of the motorhomes go south for the winter.
>
> I am just putting this idea out there. Anyone on the list give me a way to
> make my dream of a "no winter", winter actually come to pass?
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Ken Wilford
> John 3:16
> www.vanagain.com
>
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