Troops, The commute from hell to the new job, demanding schedule, and existence of two other VW campers in the family strongly encouraged the purchase of a "real" car for daily commuting. (A/C in the incessant 115F Arizona heat etc). I called on a '88 Westy with a supposed 30K miles and A/C, priced at lower than the going rate for several days with no answer. =(((( Looked at the Waterpumper VWs but couldn't afford the cost of anything with less than a billion miles. General sticker shock with anything that had any style. I finally stumbled across a 3.8 V-6 A/C midsized <Buick> 4door Bluesmobile from a Sun City citizen on Monday. The 27,000 original mile car looked almost new. Power everything-albeit the blandness. It was a deal that I couldn't pass up~ for our current needs. Now I will look like "Grandma" or some misc. average middle-aged white guy on the road. I wonder if Buick owners wave? I have several pics that I can scan and hang on a simple URL this weekend. Fly in for the Jerome event and drive it home! -ellis\ |
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