With all the unknowns surrounding gas pricing these days, you may be
better served sicking to  a Vanagon of your choice. You could suddenly
get bit hard!!

John

On 6/30/2013 8:40 PM, Jeff Palmer wrote:
> 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.
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> Jeff
>
> Sent from my iPad
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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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