

| Subject: | Re: Wife is done with Vanagon and camping! |
| From: | Dennis Haynes |
| Date: | Mon, 1 Jul 2013 00:05:02 -0400 |
Don't I know it! Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of JRodgers Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2013 9:55 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: Wife is done with Vanagon and camping! 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. > > Jeff > > Sent from my iPad > > 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 >> >> _____________________________________________ >> Toll-Free for Orders by PART # : 1-866-BUS-DEPOT >
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