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

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