Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 08:35:49 -0700
Reply-To: Stuart MacMillan <macmillan@HOME.COM>
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From: Stuart MacMillan <macmillan@HOME.COM>
Subject: Re: Which automobile to keep and which to sell :-<
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Are you kidding? Drop the emotional aspects and face reality! You are
both grad students and have no money, and if I remember, you said you
weren't going to be done until 2002.
Sell the stinkin' Honda! You don't need it, it's worth ~$7,000 and will
be easy to sell. That will buy a lot of food and firewood, not to
mention lowering your insurance significantly, which is what you need
NOW. The old truck is bullet proof, and the Vanagon gives you a way to
take an inexpensive camping break from studying, and you have lots of
beautiful places to go around there. McCall is one of my favorites.
Both will be worth about what they are today two years from now, but the
Honda won't be.
I've been to Moscow, and the truck is probably the safest vehicle to
drive there with all the Wazoo students coming over to drink. You'll fit
right in with the farmers too! The whole town is only about 2 miles
across, so your wife can tough it out. Get her a Mercedes or something
when you get your high paying jobs in 2002!
Think about it . . .
Matthew Pollard wrote:
>
> Good morning vanagon support group,
> my wife and I have a dilema. Here is the rundown. We are both grad
> students and we own three cars. We would like to cut back to two cars
> only. Now here is the kicker, which one to sell?
> #1 1990 honda accord. fast, 36mpg, relaible. automatic, so she is
> comfortable driving it
> #2 1970 Ford F100 truck. New engine and transmission. We heat our house
> with fire (we have no other means!) and need to haul about 4 cords of wood
> a year with it, plus other homeowner needs. And it is a good beater that
> i don't mind drivign in the snow and ice with.
> #3 84 vanagon. runs great. great for camping. great in the snow. love to
> trip in it and in general great rig.
>
> Do you see the problem? Selling the honda isn't an option... and her
> parents gave it to her a few years ago and it'd be a dick move to sell
> it... inlaws... Then again, if i sell the bus my wife promised me that
> she'll let me get a new one after grad school. Maybe a syncro that needs a
> new engine so i can put in an inline 4.... Or if we sell the truck, we
> still need to get lots of fire wood and would have to beg/borrow/steel a
> truck for that. Hmmm, I guess i could see my Chain Saw in my bus. It's a
> stihl- both fine German Engineering.
>
> I could get about 1000$ for the truck. It is only 2wd so that knock the
> value way down in this area. How much could i get for a weekender with
> alloy painted wheels, 100K on the hamster-wheel, clean, rust free,
> california bus with no dents over a few door-dings.
>
> Thanks
>
> Matthew Pollard http://www.uidaho.edu/~poll7356
> Dept. of Chemistry http://www.chem.uidaho.edu
> University of Idaho http://www.uidaho.edu
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Stuart MacMillan
Seattle
'84 Vanagon Westfalia w/2.1
'65 MGB (Driven since 1969)
'74 MGB GT (Restoring)
Assisting on Restoration:
'72 MGB GT (Daughter's)
'64 MGB (Son's)
Parts cars:
'68 & '73 MGB, '67 MGB GT
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