Date:         Sat, 18 Nov 1995 12:28:14 -0700
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         plima@indirect.com (Peter J. Lima)
Subject:      Re: The Value of Splits in Time

>Splitters, Splitterettes and Speculators:
>With some slight of finger, I offer the following ASCII
>graph of the Condition 1 value of a 1967 Deluxe bus over the
>last decade:
>
>1986 4,800
>1987 *|
>1988 **|
>1989 *5,400
>1990 ****\
>1991 ******\
>1992 *******7,600
>1993 *************************\
>1994 **************************************\
>1995 *************************************************21,500
>    4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
>                Thousands of US Dollars
>
>Did you REALLY want to know this?  Not sure I did.  When I
>saw the post that ONE PIECE of green glass for the roof
>windows of a deluxe was going for $125 and that it would
>take $1,000 to replace them all (minus rubber of course) the
>future of our *hobby* came into focus.  I have never been in
>this for the money but you have to know there ARE people who
>are.  There are also people who have finally realized what
>we knew several decades ago but they now have the money and
>desire to pay for what they once considered to be junk.

Expect to see the same phenomenon happening with the 2nd-series Bus as time
goes on, too. (Though I notice that the two major VW-collector magazines
rarely feature the post-'68 Buses and I've never seen one on the cover. . .!)