I Don't know if this is the promised land, but I have certainly seen more
vanagons here than any other place I have been. Within 6 blocks of my house
in S.E. Portland there are 8 vans, 4 of them, including mine, early 80's,
brown & tan paint.
Strange, first there was mine, then another moved in, then another, and
another. Perhaps something in our wet N.W. Weather is causing them to
reproduce?..................
----- Original Message -----
From: A & C Grobey <alien1@jps.net>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 9:39 PM
Subject: Re: is Portland OR the promised land

> -----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
>