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Subject:Re: My 82 Diesel
From:Doug in Calif
Date:Tue, 10 Aug 2004 10:10:38 -0700

Boy,
You guys sure are fun,
Like an all night appointment at the dentist.

So what are you saying?  go buy a saturn?

Doug

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stan Wilder" <wilden1-1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 8:27 AM
Subject: Re: My 82 Diesel

> Not so fast there, bunkie.  Remember the new-tew-yew vanagon rule.  You're
> gonna spend twice what you paid for it in the first two years just to keep
> it running.
> ------------------ Clip -----------------------
> Absolutely right!
> The market price for Vanagon  going to wrecking yards is $250.00 with
decent
> body parts and dead engines.
> The market price running down the road under it's own power is about twice
> that much.
> If you invest in an engine rebuild then it's a marriage made in hell as
> everything else begins to fail.
>
> Stan Wilder
> www.engineceramics.com