From: Matthew Pollard <poll7356@UIDAHO.EDU> on 09/13/2000 11:09 AM

Please respond to Matthew Pollard <poll7356@UIDAHO.EDU>

To:   vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
cc:
Client:
Subject:  Which automobile to keep and which to sell :-<

Hey Matthew ---- a vanagon in the hand is worth two in the future. How
much firewood can you get in the vanagon???

Cheers,
Doug Alcock
'84 westy
Toronto, Canada

<<snip>>Good morning vanagon support group,
my wife and I have a dilema.  Here is the rundown. We are both grad
students and we own three cars.  We would like to cut back to two cars
only. Now here is the kicker, which one to sell?
#1 1990 honda accord. fast, 36mpg, relaible.  automatic, so she is
comfortable driving it
#2 1970 Ford F100 truck.  New engine and transmission.  We heat our house
with fire (we have no other means!) and need to haul about 4 cords of wood
a year with it, plus other homeowner needs.  And it is a good beater that
i don't mind drivign in the snow and ice with.
#3 84 vanagon. runs great. great for camping. great in the snow.  love to
trip in it and in general great rig.

Do you see the problem?  Selling the honda isn't an option... and her
parents gave it to her a few years ago and it'd be a dick move to sell
it... inlaws...  Then again, if i sell the bus my wife promised me that
she'll let me get a new one after grad school. Maybe a syncro that needs a
new engine so i can put in an inline 4.... Or if we sell the truck, we
still need to get lots of fire wood and would have to beg/borrow/steel a
truck for that.  Hmmm, I guess i could see my Chain Saw in my bus. It's a
stihl- both fine German Engineering.

I could get about 1000$ for the truck. It is only 2wd so that knock the
value way down in this area. How much could i get for a weekender with
alloy painted wheels, 100K on the hamster-wheel, clean, rust free,
california bus with no dents over a few door-dings.

Thanks

Matthew Pollard             http://www.uidaho.edu/~poll7356
Dept. of Chemistry               http://www.chem.uidaho.edu
University of Idaho                   http://www.uidaho.edu<<snip>>