My 02 Eurovan Weekender is the second car to my 85 Westy. AHHHHH air conditioning and power.

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From: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
To: vanagon <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Fri, Aug 28, 2015 7:57 am
Subject: Friday: What's the perfect second car for Vanagon owners?

By now, many or most of us on this list have spent some serious time and
money
making our Vanagons back into the capable, fun vehicles they were
when they
first rolled off the dealer's lot.

They are well designed and well
manufactured with good materials. They
serve the needs of their owners so well
that many would agree that there
has been no replacement for them made earlier
or later, and most of us
would agree that is the reason they get the attention
lavished on them that
they do.

So, given that some cars have "that certain
something" and they warrant
being kept and restored, what would be your second
choice to give the same
money and attention toward (as if that were possible
for most people)?

I am not looking for dream cars or exotics, but ordinary
production cars
that were well made and a joy to drive that should be
resurrected from the
scrapyards of history.

I started thinking about this
the other day when I was driving behind a
1983 Honda Accord hatchback, another
car that probably has never quite been
equalled in its utility and
fun-to-drive-ness.

If you could keep and drive a car as a compliment to your
Vanagon, what
would it be?

Jim