Interestingly, when we bought our '87 Westy last year
the PO actually is a professional in adoption services
in the community. Not only did I go through a similar
interview, but the paperwork accompanying the sale
included the "life book" for the van similar to the
ones that accompany adopted children, noting nearly
every aspect of its life and maintenance under her
care.

I saw her the other week and proudly showed off the
changes/improvements we've made.  She agrees the van
went to a good home.  Whew!  I'd hate for her to take
it back!

Stephen

--- Markus Mumper <markusmumper@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> On 5/8/07, joe trussell <vanagongl@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I think that selling a Vanagon is less about
> profit (from my perspective
> > there is no such thing as Vanagon monetary profit)
> and more about
> > interviewing prospective adoptive parents.
> >
>
> That's funny -
>
> When we bought our current Westy the owners, a
> middle aged couple from New
> Zealand, basically interviewed us when we went to
> look at the van. The only
> reason they were selling is that they were going
> back to New Zealand and the
> van would not fit in their shipping container
> (although their MG would).
>
> It was a little chilly and I was wearing a beanie.
> The wife asked me if I
> was a surfer, I said no. She said good because they
> would not sell to a
> surfer because they don't have enough money to take
> care of a van!
>
> We proceeded to go into their kitchen, talked for
> about half an hour and I
> guess we passed - they sold us the van. She was an
> '87 Westy with recently
> re-built heads, about 130,000 total miles and pretty
> much flawless EXCEPT
> for the stupid seam rust at the utility ports. This
> was three years ago and
> we got her for $6,000 which in retrospect was a good
> price.
>
> Maggie, Markus and The Girl.
>

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