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Subject:Re: Wife is done with Vanagon and camping!
From:Jeff Palmer
Date:Sun, 30 Jun 2013 20:40:29 -0500

So I shouldn't be drooling over an 85 Airstream 345 for sale near me? :). Because I am and need to be talked out of it. 

Jeff

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On 2013-06-30, at 8:33 PM, "The Bus Depot" <vanagon@BUSDEPOT.COM> wrote:

> Many of my customers are retirees. I fondly remember a couple who stopped by
> to pick up some parts during the Bus Depot's first year, when I was still
> working out of my house.  They were in their eighties and pulled up in a
> white '71 Westy that was just like one I used to own. They told me that
> after they retired they'd bought a large motorhome so they could travel the
> country, but found that it was too unwieldy to take up smaller roads.  So
> they bought a small car to tow behind it, as people often do. But they found
> that sometimes they would travel a bit too far out of the way in the car,
> and not really want to drive all the way back to the motorhome by nightfall.
> So they sold the car and bought a '71 Westy to tow behind the motorhome,
> which allowed them to take a quick overnight trip and return back to the big
> motorhome the next day.  But after a while, they decided that the motorhome
> was superfluous, as the Westy was much easier to drive, better on gas, and
> had everything they really needed. So they sold the motorhome. 
> 
> - Ron Salmon
>   The Bus Depot, Inc.
>   www.busdepot.com
>   (215)  234-VWVW
> 
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