"Keep in mind my theory of the purchase price is just the down
payment."� --� Dennis Haynes

Dennis, please keep knocking this truth into our heads from time to time, thank you!!� It seems about every 2 weeks or so, when I am on some Vanagon outing, I will get admiration and envy from a bystander about Vanagons.� I tell them, yes they are so cool...but...I try in 5 or 10 minutes to explain that they are 20-25 years old or more, they are not a "normal" car like a Honda or Toyota, that it may take lots of love and long-suffering and frustration and education and dollars for it to all to come together......and on and on. 

I think GoWesty understands and has dialed in on this concept.� That's why they go from bottom to top on those vehicles, and there is undeniably a market out there willing to pay what it really takes to turn a "vintage" vehicle into a reliable "modern" vehicle.� For a price.� Not everybody is a backyard mechanic which these Vanagons need no matter how gentle you are with them....eventually mechanical things wear out...and then what?� For mechanically-inclined or even sort of (like me)....not too big of a problem (with help from AAA).� For civilians used to "normal" modern vehicles....big problem.

Anyway, that advice about "purchase price" is just so plain useful....love it when I hear it especially from a guy who knows what he's talking about...brings reality home.

Rich
San Diego