I have to respectfully disagree! Our vanagon campers will still  
appreciate in value, not as daily drivers, but as collector's  
vehicles.  This is because the hobby is not necessarily a rational  
one, but a cult oriented one that will not be affected much by gas  
prices, only one's ability to buy, maintain, & love, & this will rise  
w/ inflation?  Look what folks are paying for houses now compared to  
5,10, or 20 years ago.

We are all nutz!

Flame suit on!

Tom B.-not sure bout non campers tho

On Apr 25, 2007, at 11:01 AM, Jason Willenbrock wrote:

> well,
> like the housing market this will change.  poeple may not realize  
> it yet
> but, now is the time to get what you can for these vans.  like it  
> or not,
> right now it is a sellers market.  whether we want to admit it or  
> not, with
> rising energy issues, prices will crash on these prolly with in the  
> next 5
> years.  these $50k syncros that get 16 MPG will be worth 5K.  Don't  
> get me
> wrong i love my vans but i also know that in the near future they  
> may not
> make sense economically (do they make economic sense now?)
> so i say let people get what they can now because in a few years it  
> will be
> a buyers market and we can all have any van we want for cheap, may  
> not have
> any gas to power them, but hey we can camp in our front yards!!
> my 2 cents
> jason
>
>
>> From: Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
>> Reply-To: Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>> Subject: Re: The two kinds of Vanagon owner..
>> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:42:57 -0500
>>
>>>
>>> Ok I'm done ranting - Again I could be very wrong and expect a   
>>> beating
>>> here
>>> but it just seems to me that asking prices are very inflated.
>>>
>>> Later,
>>>
>>> Jeff Lincoln
>>>
>>
>> Jeff,
>>
>> They're only inflated if the seller is not getting the asking  
>> price.  It's
>> hard to tell from a classified ad�or even ebay�if the deal went   
>> down as
>> advertised.
>>
>> Jim
>
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