Ken,
How much is the question - for the vans, not the shipping...

I am seriously looking at getting a Volkswagen Iltis... if you can find
some way of getting this in the group purchase it would be really great!

At 09:36 PM 30/08/1999 EDT, KENWILFY@AOL.COM wrote:
>I have had a lot of postitive response on the diesel Vanagon group purchase.
>So far about 5 people are really interested in at least buying one van each.
>I hope this will encourage others to join in on this "once in a lifetime"
>deal.
>
>As far as registering vans here, I am not experienced with this.  I have
>heard of other folks buying Vanagons in Germany and bringing them over (when
>they had that program) and we also see folks bringing crew cabs and single
>cabs over from Canada and getting them setup for here.  I don't see why it
>can't be done.  I would love to hear from someone who has done it so that
>might give us a better idea of what we are getting into.
>
>The other thing is that, for some reason, customs is easier to get through if
>you bring in a bunch of cars rather than just one.  I guess this encourages
>trade or something.  If you bring in just one car you get scrutinized to
>death but if you bring in a bunch they just give you a glance over the herd
>and sign the papers (this is what I have heard from some reliable sources).
>The one really good thing is that the vans that we want to bring over were
>sold here in the US at the same time as they were in Germany.  That means
>that we have crash test data, etc on these year Vanagons and shouldn't have
>to go down that road.
>So please if you are interested in this group purchase of diesel 1.7l NA
>Vanagons with raised tops and 5-speed trannies, please let me know as soon as
>you can.
>Thanks
>Ken Wilford
>Van-Again
>John 3:16
>
>

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