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Subject:Re: Friday: What's the perfect second car for Vanagon owners?
From:Jeff Schwaia
Date:Fri, 28 Aug 2015 15:33:07 -0700

2nd car????    I think the last time I only had 2 cars was 1979...  ;-)

Cheers, 

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Marc Perdue
Sent: Friday, August 28, 2015 2:14 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Friday: What's the perfect second car for Vanagon owners?

I'm with Max on this one, the 1967 Shelby 289 AC Cobra with the aluminum body. Add to that my 1995 Toyota T100 SR5 pickup and a 1986 Honda Civic 4WD wagon that got 40 MPG on the highway, oh, and a 1988 BMW 535is, red, with cream interior.

Marc Perdue

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Jim Arnott <jrasite@eoni.com> wrote:
> Since my other car is a diesel Westy, my vote for the perfect third 
> car is a one ton pickup.  When I need to drag a busted bus home, a 
> U-Haul car hauler is $50/day. When I pick it up with the one ton 
> dually, they don't even ask what I'm going put on it. (Mileage? I 
> might have put 25 miles on it in the past year.... Who cares that it 
> gets 10-12 mpg.)
>
> Jim
> '82 diesel Westfalia (wife's bus)
> '84 ABA powered Adventurewagen (Jim's daily driver)
> '88 460 powered Ford F-350 dually
> other stuff