-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
Of Steve Arbaugh
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 12:16 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: is Portland OR the promised land

for what it's worth,,

the Seattle Times/PI usually has a good number of vanagons/westy's for sale
as
well. vanagon.com has a link to it, as I don't have it handy right now. I
went
thru the sunday paper (the old-fashioned hard copy no less) and saw 15 or so
vanagons and prolly a dozen westy's, and a scattering of syncro's, more or
less. I think I remember a crew cab splitty, but sunday was a long time ago,
so
no promises.

steve
'85 westy
kent, wa

>From: Houston <dubwisened@yahoo.com>
>Ahem,
>Just in case anybody gets any ideas, yes, there are a
>lot of Vanagons and Westies here in Portland.  There
>are even junk yards with 'em and some good repair
>shops.  BUT...it rains ALL the time.  And there's no
>culture.  And our police chief is from L.A.  And
>losers are still cutting down all the trees.  You
>might be able to get by the James G. Blain Society
>guard stationed at the border if you're driving a nice
>Westy, but believe me, you wouldn't be happy living
>here, believe me.  Really, it's true.  Really.
>
>Scott's right though, if you're looking for a rust
>free (no salt on the roads, mild winters) vanagon for
>EXPORT into one of the other 49 states, there are many
>to be had.  You can search the oregonian's classified
>at <a href=http://www.oregonlive.com/>http://www.oregonlive.com/</a>
>
>Houston
>'84 Westy named Morrison