JordanVw@AOL.COM wrote:

>  the definition of a beater car is one you dont have to put constant money
> into, one you can just run into the ground.
>
> the vanagon doesnt fit that definition..

I don't know, Chris ... I guess it just depends.

My '84 7 passenger was given to me in '91 with a bad engine.  Including
replacing that engine with a used one, I've put less than $1,000 into it
in 16 years and it's been a daily driver the whole time.  Of course, I
have done all my own work on it.  I shipped it from Hawaii to California
and drove it to Texas then on to Maine.  It has made 7 round trips from
Maine to Tennessee and is the one I used when I drove from Maine to your
place to pick up a middle seat for my Westy.

I should paint the energizer bunny on the side.

Mike