Yay!  They saved the bus.

Karl Wolz

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Pollard" <poll7356@UIDAHO.EDU>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 9:38 AM
Subject: Which car to sell and which to keep

> Morning y'all-
> Quick background. My wife and i are poor grad students that have three
> cars.  The question was which one to sell: '70 ford PU, 90 Honda accord,
> 84 vanagon. Tough decision.  The utilitiarian cars VS the pleasure
> craft.  These utilitiarian cars are the truck (we own a fix-er-up-er
> house) and the honda (at 40 miles per gallon, and fast). The the Bus is
> just the bus.  But we love the bus.
>
> So we went camping (in the rain) a few weekends ago in my wife's honda and
> did some thinking and talking and reading the dozens of emails from this
> list regarding this subject.
>
> The main points were, in order 1) saftey 2) utility 3) reliability
> 4) costs and 5) pleasure
>
> And here is what it boiled down to. We need the truck. Enough said, so
> there. You own an old house, you just gotta have a truck.  I don't want to
> thrash my otherwise nice bus for wood and dump runs. (And purchasing a
> trailer for the bus wasn't addressed).
>
> The honda is too good to sell (reliable, safe, fast (expenive speeding
> ticket though...) etc)) and the bus is, well, the bus!
>
> We are in grad school and will be moving in three years. The truck is a
> piece of junk and not worth moving with us, so we are going to sell/dump
> the truck when we move, and in the mean time just deal with having three
> cars.  We didn't exactly save and $ but we did justify not selling the bus
> (which was the other alternative).
>
> Cheers!
>
>
> Matthew Pollard             http://www.uidaho.edu/~poll7356
> Dept. of Chemistry               http://www.chem.uidaho.edu
> University of Idaho                   http://www.uidaho.edu
>
> On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Joel Walker wrote:
>
> > so ....
> >
> > what'd you guys decide about the bus?? :)
> >
>