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Subject:Re: ultimate vanagon challenge
From:Kim Brennan
Date:Tue, 1 Aug 2006 17:20:18 -0400

Where's your sense of adventure?

I've bought 3 Vanagons in California, essentially sight unseen, and
drove each of them back to the East Coast. Only one that didn't go
straight away was because I couldn't take the week vacation right
then. I stored it at my sister's house for a month first. But it ran
fine.

But those trips across the country are part of the fun. (and another
reason why I've travelled so many interstates.)

On Aug 1, 2006, at 3:44 PM, Steven Johnson wrote:

I recommend that you ship it rather than try to
drive an untested vehicle cross-country.  That quite
a bit of risk to be taking.  The rates for shipping
vehicles from West to East are much cheaper as the
trucks coming back are usually empty.  You can even
have the drivers bid against each other to get a