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Subject:Re: Is it useful to post Craigslist ads here . . .
From:Eric Caron
Date:Wed, 8 Apr 2015 17:01:54 -0400

Hi folks,

        I disagree,  I’m on the east coast and don’t find time or have skills to search the “average” posts.  If you see a reasonable or good deal send them along.  People know how to use a delete key if they don’t want to read a FS subject.

Eric Caron 
85 GL Auto Westfalia 

> On Apr 8, 2015, at 2:20 PM, Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
>  I'd say a little discretion about what kind of ads you send along to
> Vanagon is going to be appreciated here.  Remember, this is a mailing list
> format and we all get all the messages...So outstanding deals, ridiculously
> outlandish asking prices, weird and amusing modifications on FS vans,
> things that might be of interest to the general readership..those are
> probably interesting to most of us here, yes...but seeing ads for average
> prices and average vanagons, ads for vans around the world or across the
> US, that is not of interest to some...We can all go to CL, the Samba,
> Autotrader...hundreds of sites...and see those any time if we are
> interested...
>   That is my input...Send em..... for those $90k Syncros....makes me
> laugh....skip em for the "asking $15k for '89 Westie,   Needs
> engine..located Maine, USA"...not of much interest to us on the West coast,
> really..
> 
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Julianna Elligsen <mumbrue@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> I love seeing them!  This is how I got Ophelia!  Someone mentioned that
>> she was available in Louisiana, if anyone was looking!!!  I was working
>> only 6 hours away, so I gave a deposit, and drove over to take a look!  :)
>> Got her for $1200!  Engine fire, must have been put out quick, because
>> didn't affect the interior!  Full camper, but lots of engine work to be
>> done, and a little seam rust to battle.  I am having Kirk Meeks move
>> Rastafalia's engine and transmission over sometime in the next month!
>> Excited!
>> 
>> Julianna
>> 1991 VW Vanagon Westfalia (Ophelia)
>> 1990 VW Vanagon Westfalia with Tiico Conversion  (The Rastafalia)
>> 1988 VW Vanagon (James)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Apr 6, 2015, at 11:23 AM, Peter Kraiker <turbowesty@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I say yes!
>>> 
>>> Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
>>>> . . . for Vanagons for sale? I see a few every month here in the Bend,
>>>> Oregon, region and wonder if posting the links would be helpful, or
>>>> simply clutter things up?
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
>>>> 1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
>>>> Bend, Ore.
>>> 
>>> --
>>> 
>>> Regards, Peter Kraiker
>>> Website: Kraiker.Photography
>>> <http://kraiker.photography><http://kraiker.photography>
>>> Blog: NextChapter.Kraiker.ca <http://Nextchapter.kraiker.ca>
>>> Cell: (416) 453-9142 Skype: pkraiker
>>> <http://www.getpostbox.com>
>>

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