[Vwdiesel] Merry Christmas!

[lbaird119 at aol.com]

As you can tell by the untimely timing of this, I'm generally quite busy.  I'd rather wish each of you a personal, Merry Christmas but I'm down to an hour left in the day before I finally had a break to do a group version of it.  Merry Christmas to all my friends on the list, and to those no longer on it or with us.  :-(  Some of you get a big hug along with the greeting and I'm sure you know who you are. :-)  You're all a great group of friends and several are counted as family.  (I don't see much of anybody lately including relatives, unless one come visiting or I get to visit them in the routine of doing business or fixing something!
Sadly I've been burning a lot of gas lately but I'm about ready to park the 9 mpg Nissan Frontier (on shorts runs from house to shop, etc, 20 mpg on the highway) and start driving the TD Pickup again.  :-D  No 4x but then don't need it much in the VW and save a ton on fuel!  My daughter's Cayenne is nice for comfort, for my wife but makes about 15 mpg.  Passat wagon has been out of commission for about 2 years since it rolled across the street to scratch the neighbor's bumper yet take out the tailgate, all rear lights, latch release and part of the right quarter.  It's finally getting close to ready for paint.  Just need a bit more time and no interruptions for the shop space, both of which get screwed up daily it seems.   If anybody comes across a sub $20k TDI Cayenne (has to be '13 - '16 to be a TDI and '13 & '14 have cheaper parts) let me know.  As with the general flavor of this list, needing work is not a problem, if the price is appropriate.  Daughter or us would like one but not really sure I can afford one.  Will likely make it work if the right one comes along. 
Other option would be a sub $10K TDI Touareg for my wife.  The Porsche is a nicer looking rig but with the same V6, I'm sure it's similar enough for the 10 to 20K in savings that I've seen lately.  I could finance that without selling any of my "nice" cars.  (nice in what they are, not really for their present state of upkeep).  :-(
Merry Christmas, a belated Happy Hanukkah and Happy New Year!!!     Loren