Date:         Mon, 26 Jun 2000 15:00:06 -0600
Reply-To:     Damian Shaw <dts@xmission.com>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Damian Shaw <dts@xmission.com>
Subject:      Hi; I'm New
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Hi all,

I've known about your mailing list for some time and I finally decided
to join.  Actually I did try to subscribe a while ago, but somehow I
messed up my subscription email...

Anyway, a bit about myself:

My name is Damian Shaw, I live in Sandy (Suburb of Salt Lake City),
Utah.  I owe three VWs, age-ordered they are:  an 87 Westy, 88 Quantum
Syncro Wagon, 89 Cabriolet.

I have owned the Westy the longest - about 2 1/2 years.  It is probably
my 'best' VW with about 82k miles on the clock and in excellent shape.
It's an all original, 5-speed, 2wd, no a/c, flash silver with gray
interior.  Original head gaskets still holding (knock on wood).

I do a lot of mechanical stuff myself with a focus on VWs.  Karl Bloss
actually forwarded this list a technical article I put together on the
Vanagon's throttle switches (several months ago) - he saw it posted on
the VW Watercooled newsgroup...

My cabriolet is my daily driver - and my only modified VW.  In it is a
'race' engine consisting of the later Jetta engine block (2.0l ABA), the
earlier GTI solid lifter 8v head, lots of Scirocco accessories, and
other performance parts.  You can see a brief overview of it on:

http://photos.yahoo.com/damian_tyson_shaw

under the 'project cabriolet' link.

Finally, the Quantum is my current project - my wife and I bought it a
few months ago and are in the process of restoring it so she can have it
as a daily driver.  Mostly that car needs body work and we're stripping
it down and handing it over to a restorer to give it a restoration level
paint job.  Normally I wouldn't take on such a huge project but with the
Quantum Syncro Wagon being so rare I felt it deserved a 2nd chance at
life...  There are also some pictures of the Quantum at the link above.
(No Westy pictures there - I've never had to do any 'big' repairs to
it!)

Well, I hope I can be a positive contributor to your list...

Damian