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