From: 01ksdavis@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu (Rebel without a clue.)
Newsgroups: rec.autos.vw
Subject: Final about Re: Importing
Date: 9 Nov 92 00:29:53 GMT
Organization: The Corporation.

In article <1992Nov3.170425.4618@bb1t.monsanto.com>, bjgaed@bb1t.monsanto.com writes:
> In article <1992Nov2.012306.11351@bsu-ucs>, 01ksdavis@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu (Rebel without a clue.) writes:
> The air-cooled VW's are still a bargain.  Compare the price of a 
> fully-restored beetle, bus, or Ghia to a new compact, minivan, or 
> sport model *of the same quality* and you come out ahead even if you 
> pay someone else to do the restoration.
	Yeah, sure it comes out a bargain, but the only thing wrong with this
is that I believe the newer cars are overpriced.  I mean, let's face what the
be-all and end-all of a car is Point A to Point B.  All the stuff about
airc-conditioning, motorized seat adjusters, insulated passenger compartments
(no doubt, to lull the driver into a false sense of security enough to fall
asleep) and Boom-box stereos are just FLUFF.

	The air-cooled VWs, while having a majority of the creature comforts
the Ford model A didn't have (in number two sales position,) still has enough
to make it enjoyable to drive.
> And *for free* you get lots 
> of entertaining weekends challenging your mind to solve engine 
> diagnostic problems *and* upper body fitness workouts trying to loosen 
> your rear wheel nuts.
	Yes, that and the ever elusive "Quest for the Holy Doohickey" part that
you need to finish the restoration, or just keep your VW going.  What fun!  I
spent three and a half years searching for an ashtray for a 74 superbeetle.  I
even had it ordered at the local dealer (a useless, futile gesture, I know.) 
So, after my car is ruined by some teenager running an hour late in his parents
Oldsmobile, I finally found it at one of the same junkyards I had searched for
earlier.
> From the advanced age of 45 I can tell you that there are two ways for 
> middle-aged males to have a mid-life crisis:  cars and women. 
	I know this.  My father loved to have old cars.  Mom told him to get
rid of them and then he had a mistress.  Guess you never really know somebody
until it is too late.
> Since 
> my wife is a domestic relations attorney, there is only one of those 
> that I can afford.  Now, would anyone like a ride in my '64 Ghia?  8{)
	You have a '64 Ghia?  I would like to hear more about it.
> --Electric Monk            (Bruce Gaede); 
>                             e-mail: bjgaed@ccmail.monsanto.com
> 
> "...and then time started seriously to pass."
> --Douglas Adams, _Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency_
	One last thing before I leave this thread entirely.

	There are certain advantages to owning a 1993 VW bug that is legal in
America (hey, stranger things have happened:)

	Let me list them:

	1.)You can get full-coverage on your insurance.

	2.)I hate to throw in any sexual things here, but the best analogy I
	   can think of is like having sex with a virgin (I can only imagine 
	   the flames I will get for this one)

	3.)"That NEW CAR SMELL!!!"

	4.)It would be the only car that is different from everybody elses.
	   Hence, very easy to find at parking lots.

	5.)It would be up to you to make sure you take care of the car good.
	   I.E.  You don't have to worry about finding bondo on the body as 
	   you would have the sense to insist upon replacing steel parts with
	   steel parts.

	One last thing.  There is a reason other than the environmental one
that VW cited why they stopped selling the VW Bug in the American market.  (I
know, I know, but hey, if people can make a conspiracy out of JFK's
assasination, then I ought to be able to make a conspiracy out of the end of
the American Bug.)

	Certain people were losing too much money on the VW bug.  Who? 
Obviously if you said GM and Ford, that's not a bad guess, but the real
financial losers on the bug were chemical companies, or more specifically,
chemical companies who made and sold antifreeze.

	I think that somebody bought VW out.  They really don't seem to be
hurting for money even if they do overprice their water-cooled cars.

	Opinions?

		Kyle
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|Kyle S. Davis				                                       |
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