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Date:         Tue, 30 Jan 2001 19:36:10 -0500
Reply-To:     Stephen Steele <steeles@HORIZONVIEW.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stephen Steele <steeles@HORIZONVIEW.NET>
Subject:      Re: Car tastes of our teenagers
Comments: To: Gary Stearns <gstearns@optonline.net>
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Sam W wrote: >> We'll see what puberty does for his car >> tastes. >> >> Sam Walters >> '84 Vanagon, 174k >> '89 Syncro, 176 k >> 11 year old Alex, future driver

Gary S wrote: > Since I agree with the theory that all teenagers go through a period of > temporary insanity (Even, no make that especially me. Somehow I survived.), > I am thinking that my 13 year old son will have to satisfy himself with an > old tank. I'm thinking Checker Marathon myself...

My comments:

As my twin fifteen year old boys turn sixteen within weeks, I am keenly aware of how "uncool" the Vans are. They are almost equally dismayed with my choice of an '81 diesel Rabbit as 'their' car (augmented by my "sits in the alley and gets used as a truck S-10). They will follow in the footsteps/tire tracks of their two older brothers who were forced to endure econobox junkers until their driving and maintenance skills warranted step up next cars. Son # 1 now has a beautiful '98 VR6 GTI and son #2 drives a pristine '92 Jetta and has a '68 Karmaan Ghia as a keeper. Both of them learned about cars through a series of object lessons and over several years of servitude to their econobox beginnings. The older siblings both admit that the utility of the vans is beginning to grow on them...particularly for moving and weekend camping.

-- Stephen Steele Chillicothe OH '91 Caravelle Hans '84 Westfalia Fritz or Sunny?


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