Date:         Fri, 23 Jun 2000 13:14:39 -0700
Reply-To:     Mark Mages <wasserbox@yahoo.com>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Mark Mages <wasserbox@yahoo.com>
Subject:      Re: Where have all the Vanagons gone?
Comments: To: Mark Drillock <drillock@earthlink.net>
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They're all in Colorado....

During the summer (aka tourist) season, there are
Vanagons galore in Durango.  I see more Vans in a day
then I did the entire 4 years I lived in Houston.

All the van owners are at home reading the 2400 emails
;)

Mark

--- Mark Drillock <drillock@earthlink.net> wrote:
> I made it home last night from an 11 day trip across
> country and back in
> my 82 TD Westy. The biggest surprise was how few
> Vanagons of any type we
> saw. From the Calif border to North Carolina I saw a
> total of 4
> Vanagons, one late model Westy in Texas and a couple
> of air cooled
> models in New Mexico and my Aunts 90 Carat in NC.
> From there we drove to
> PA and I saw none. I saw a clean Westy outside of
> Chicago and then
> nothing until we got to Moab and the Grand Canyon
> where there were a
> variety of VW vans of all types.
>
> I can see more Vanagons in my own driveway than I
> saw in 4000 miles of
> travel east of the Rockies. Is this how it really
> is? I see dozens daily
> just going about my business in San Diego or any
> part of coastal Calif.
> Now I understand some of the posts I see from people
> wanting to know if
> a Vanagon they saw somewhere is a list member. Any
> list member Westbound
> on I 20 near Odessa TX on the morning of June 13, in
> a white late model
> Westy?
>
> The second biggest surprise was the number of small
> metal pieces in the
> bottom of my transmission just outside of North
> Platte Nebraska. Spare
> Vanagon tranny availability there is slim to say the
> least. Fortunately
> my list member buddy Mike Snow was able to help my
> brother in law send
> me a spare tranny that same day FedEx P1. It arrived
> in NE before 10 am
> the next morning and I bought some cheap wheel ramps
> and a crappy floor
> jack at a FLAPS. My nephew and I had it in and
> running early that
> afternoon in the Motel 6 parking lot. Only 24 hours
> from breakdown to on
> the road again, a true miracle.
>
> 2,400 emails left to read, or not,
> Mark Drillock


=====
Mark
If you're not paranoid, you're not paying attention.

87 Westfalia Gl
84 Scirocco 8v
http://student.fortlewis.edu/~mwmages/

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