Well,

I can tell ya this much, as a sales manager for a large RV dealership (actually
the company owns 5 dealerships) in central Florida. I sell quite a few older
RV's (he only wants to spend $15,000, each, dosen't care what year they are, or
how many miles are on the odometer, but they must be less than 30 feet long,
and diesels are a premium. to a fella from the UK, who tells me he sells them
to dealers in, of all places Spain. Go Figure? He buyes, or wants to buy, if I
have them, 10 per month. Apparently he wholesales them to dealers. Probably
keeps a few for himself to retail (more profit). He's been known to buy some
real dogs, so it's obviously fixing them up. Must be a very good market in
Europe for American RV's. I do know from many Europeans who visit this mouse
trap for people (Orlando), that they go all gooo goooo eyes for our RV's. They
take pictures, and load up on brochures, and spen whole days at our dealerships
just looking.

He's not my only European buyer, but he is my most frequent buyer. And as a
side note he loads them up with, get this, toasters, TV's, radio's, iron's, and
who knows what else before he takes them to the docks. Say's he pays for the
shipping and makes a profit, on the what nots he's loaded in the RV's. Go
Figure.

Life, it's what happens when your waiting for something to happen.

Ron Semko
Orlando, Florida
1984 Vanagon with 200,000 plus miles, and a spare in the garage.
Yea, and I have a Benz too, but just for sales meeting, I promise (and an
occasional night out maybeee, and well, you get the idea), but nobody is gonna
get me to give up my Van I just love to pull up to valet parking with it, God
how I love the lok on their faces.

ps Ok, I'll be blatent about this once, I've never mentioned this before, and
I've been on the list for years, one of the many lines we carry is the Rialta.
Any list member who wants one will get a very, very good deal from me, I
promise.

von Clemm, Peter wrote:

> I imported a Porsche in '86 before the laws were changed.  Back then it was
> a lot of work but legal.  Now it's not possible to do unless the car is 25
> years old or older or you are set up as a manufacturer of vehicles and do
> more than some number of importations per year (100 cars?).
>
> Two government agencies have jurisdiction on this...the EPA for emissions,
> the NHTSA for car safety.  They both have different rules and if I recall
> the EPA imposes the tough rules.
>
> Peter
>
> '87 Syncro Westy w/Detlev 5 cyl in September