Hi Derek

You're the guy with the wheels I've been reading about.  Do you still have/sell them?

Jason
Toronto

P.S. love that last email, if ya can't take it with you crash it trying.

On 2013-07-11, at 7:46 PM, Derek Drew <derekdrew@DEREKMAIL.COM> wrote:

> Every freaking one of us, just about, is 60 give or take a decade.
> 
> So, the Vanagon scene is going to die out *all at once* in about 20
> years from now when we stop carrying ignition keys.
> 
> In fact, I predict that it will die out in exactly the year 2030 like
> a rock falling out of a building.
> 
> This will be the end of the VW-van-boomers bouncing off what happened
> in 1968 and the promise of a better less restricted life and being
> imprinted with some meaning from the idea of VW vans with engines in the back.
> 
> The people who were five years old in 1968 were not imprinted as
> strongly with this.
> 
> There are parallels to what is going to happen with the end of the
> baby boomers and the destruction of the social security system economically.
> 
> In other words.... if you want to sell your Vanagon to get your money
> back out of it, you should sell it in the next 10 years before our
> group begins pealing off or losing their driver's licenses due to old
> age because then there will be a flood on the market of vans being
> sold by old timers and fewer people to replace those fanatics.
> 
> The only thing that can stop the flood is if the owners decide to
> bequeath the vans to their sons or grandsons.  But many of these
> people won't really have the patience, so don't expect them to have
> the commitment that we did. Then *they* will sell their rigs onto the
> market, or let them rust into oblivion.  You can't exactly say, "Oh,
> its easy, just read the posts from Samba, Vanagon  List, and
> Yahoo  vanagon groups and you will be all set with this vehicle.  You
> only have 1 million posts to  read and understand and you will be in
> total control."
> 
> I myself will singlehandedly keep the scene going until 2040 because
> I won't stop driving the vans until I crash *all* of mine due to old
> age (or off-roading them too hard).
> 
> At 02:11 PM 7/11/2013, you wrote:
>> Buncha young squirts out here Mark....60 myself in April
>> 
>> VWs since 1961, Buses since 1967, Vanagons since 1992 (An 80 POS and my two
>> current 84s)
>> 
>> --
>> Jim Thompson
>> 84 GL 1.9 "Gloria"
>> 84 Westfalia 2.1 "Ole Putt"
>> 72 411 Station Wagon "Pug"
>> 75 914 1.8 "Nancy"
>> Full Timing From March 1999 To January 2012
>> oldvolkshome@gmail.com
>> http://www.oldvolkshome.com
>> Find me on Facebook:
>> http://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Thompson/100000710343835
>> ***********************************
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Mark Dearing <VWBrain@aol.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > I just turned 60  later  mark d
>> >
>> >
> 
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