Yo Jutta & Christian und kinder; Welcome to Michigan.
You must be in the Casino industry, Detroit's fastest
growing sector. Let us know when you head for the
glorious and-soon-to-be-crowded lakeshore or U.P.
Plenty of Vanagon possibilities out here. George in
Grand Rapids.

--- Jutta & Christian Knust <knust-net@GMX.NET> wrote:
> Well, first of all I would like to thank all of you
> who responded to my
> questions during the last days; your answers and
> hints have been a tremendous
> help to us. We will buy next week an �87 Westy with
> automatic transmission which
> - I am somewhat confident - will be an excellent
> companion for us during the
> next three years and possibly beyond that time.
> Since this obviously means
> to be a permanent subscriber to the list, I thought
> a short
> introduction would be a nice thing to do. We, (that
> is my wife Jutta, our
> little sons Lars and Malte and yours truly) just
> moved from Mainz, Germany to
> Detroit, Michigan on a three-year assignment - and
> you may as well guess which industry I am working
> for. We have owned a
> couple of camping trailers and recently a Class
> C-RV; however due to the
> regulations regarding federalisation of European
> vehicles and
> the lack of any spare parts for Fiat trucks it made
> no sense at all to bring
> the RV to the U.S.
> Now, it does not make much sense to us either to
> live in the Great Lakes
> area and not have a camper - and we could not get
> any U.S. campervan; seems like
> they are available in California and Florida
> but not up here. It�s not allowed to park a
> full-sized RV in our driveway,
> therefore a campervan was the best alternative (and
> it seems like it even fits
> in the garage ;-)))
>
> I guess at least initially  I will not be much of a
> help to the group;
> however I promise to look up the Archive before
> asking questions.
> Again, I thank all of you who did respond to us
> either through the list or
> individually. Visit us at ww.knust-net.de....
> Finally I promise to change my Internet-provider
> soon to get rid of the
> gmx-signature....
> Cheers
> Chris
>
>
> --
> GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet.
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