Roger
Well said!

Dennis Jowell
Scotch Hollow Farm
Newbury, Vermont

> On Feb 1, 2017, at 11:12 PM, Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> Dear Bar Raisers
>
> I am hoping you do well with your ask -
>
> I find it wholly remarkable that a community that holds helping one another
> as the hallmark of their credibility as a group would turn on trashing one
> of their own because the ask for their vanagon is outside what they might
> have the confidence to ask -
>
> Remember all the emails every time one of these beloved machines is in a
> wreck - the owner describes in excruciatingly minute detail every washer
> they changed out since taking ownership and always end with the same remark
> - doesn't the adjuster know the amount of care and love I put into this
> vehicle -doesn't the adjuster know how much gowesty sells for - Mine is
> worth at least that much !!!
>
> Remarks best left on Facebook or twitter - or better yet - unsaid  - do
> little to increase the "helpful community flag any higher up the pole"
>
> If any of our members has the confidence to ask huge dollars for these
> never to be repeated collectors vehicles we should wish them well - hope
> they get as close to the ask as possible - - in down so every one of us
> will benifit as our collective value for investment increases with them ---
>
> I have a friend who has two Packard touring cars and he speaks about them
> the same as any vanagon owner does about their vehicle -- the only
> difference is there are no more packards coming off the assembly line --
>
> Oh wait no more vanagons either -
>
> Regards