Well, I'm divorced now and I can pack my dishwasher with car parts if
it suits me. But when I was still married, and hiking with my wife in
Acadia National Park, I saw a Syncro Westy and started making that
male-dog-smells-a-female-dog-in-heat sound. My ex said "We've got to
get you one of those so that you can shut the [four-letter Anglo-Saxon
verb denoting intercourse] up."

She would have gladly paid $11.5 K if a '86 GL would have shut me up.
I think she'd have spent more for a turn-key Syncro. I'll never know ...

Mark

On Dec 20, 2010, at 11:57 AM, Jeffrey Vickers wrote:

> DOH! You never mentioned the British cars. No wife can survive four
> British car projects.
>
> Forget the Vanagon - you're on double-secret probation for life!
>
>
> Jeff
>
>
> On Dec 20, 2010, at 11:46 AM, Mark L. Hineline wrote:
>
>> All true. But now imagine that your spouse has been through three
>> or four MGs and a couple of VW buses. You want a Vanagon. She says
>> "fine, as long it's not a project." Price doesn't matter -- having
>> engine parts in the dishwasher DOES matter. AMHIK.
>>
>> Born in Maine - Live in CA
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>> On Dec 20, 2010, at 11:29 AM, Jeffrey Vickers wrote:
>>
>>> Here's the glass half full scenario:
>>>
>>> Spend $400 on a round trip ticket from Boston to CA, buy a $5000
>>> rust
>>> free, functioning van and put it on a truck for $1000. You're back
>>> in
>>> Boston for less than $6500 and you've got a rust-free van that needs
>>> nothing.
>>>
>>> There's two, high mileage rust-free vans on SF Craigslist for $1500.
>>> There's also an engine for $800. A total of 8 vans up there right
>>> now,
>>> all for less than $3000. I spent all of two minutes to find those.
>>>
>>> Or... you could leave our rust-free vans here and help the auto body
>>> guys in Boston make their boat payments.
>>>
>>> Born in MA - Live in CA,
>>> Jeff
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>