Gerry,

How many of those Roadtreks and Pleasureway owners drove their vans to work?
Or to the grocery store?  Or to the hardware store?

The thing that seperates the Westy from the rest is it's day-to-day utility.

It's not just a camper (sounds like a tag line from a VW commercial).

Cheers,

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
Of Royston, Jerry
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 11:32 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: This GoWesty is really starting to annoy me/Sportsmobile

If I had $50K to spend on a camper, I would definitely go with something
like a Sportsmobile.  Why wouldn't anybody?  What is really so special
about these Vanagons anyway?  And why am I addicted to them?  I'm on my
second Westy now and when I was camping last week in SC, there were
bunches of Roadtreks and Pleasureway vans around.  I was even invited
into a couple of them and I must say I was overcome with envy.  Granted
they don't come with the Vanagon/Westy "family", but as much as I love
you all, is it really that important?

Gerry
'87 Westy (trying to quit)