Back when I was married, the exwife didn�t care what I did for a vehicle so
long as I made sure she had one that ran and looked the way she wanted it.
Several of my vehicles were heavily modified for recreational uses.  A
vanagon would have been perfect for most of the stuff I was building into
different vehicles as we moved around the world.  Closest I came as those
times was my little itty bitty subaru van in Okinawa.  Looked and functioned
very much like a miniature vanagon with an aircooled 550cc engine.  I could
even fold down the rear seat and throw a pad over the engine bay and seat to
make a bed.  Coleman stove was strapped to the inside in a harness and my
snorkeling and fishing equip all had rack spots as well.  And with another
rack I could carry three others and 8 air tanks.  This van is probably what
had me drooling over the westy when it became available cheap at the same
time I needed a lot of expensive parts for my jetta.

Now I too just keep throwing money at my vanagon but I am not complaining at
all.  It has to be the most productive vehicle I have ever owned.

jimt

On 12/16/04 6:36 PM, "jbange" <hfinn@INGRATES.NET> wrote:

> At 11:25 AM 12/16/2004, you wrote:
>> As for my wife, She got me into VW's and regrets it ever since.
> 
> Mine too. She kept bugging me about wanting a vehicle big enough to sleep
> in for camping (we're too old to sleep on the ground), so finally I did a
> little research and found that a Vanagon was the only logical choice for
> our needs. She had always secretly wanted one, but gave up on the idea
> years ago as impractical. But with tool-handy me around, she thought it
> would be OK  and talked me into it. July this year I went from near-total
> ignorance of all things VW, to rabid Vanagon Cult member in about 2 weeks.
> A week after that I bought our '90, and I've been pouring all my extra cash
> into it ever since. I sit around at night looking at pictures of Vanagons
> for sale on eBay and thesamba.com  even though I'm not in the market to buy
> another one-- a practice she now calls "looking at Vanagon porn". She
> frequently wonders out loud whether it was a good idea to let me have one.
> All I can say is, "TOO LATE NOW! MUAHAHAHAHA!"
> 
> John Bange
> '90 Vanagon "Geldsauger"
> 
>