Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 18:26:28 -0800
Reply-To: Zoltan Kuthy <zol@FOXINTERNET.NET>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Zoltan Kuthy <zol@FOXINTERNET.NET>
Subject: ED, New to List
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You see, you have an SUV, a car, a van, a pick up with a cover and an
ocassional camper all in one that you can fix yourself by having this tech.
support group. And its all free, paid for and low maintenance. Just right
in this economy.
If you need to show off, go ahead. None of those will be as practical as
this. Sure you would have more use out of a Westfalia, but that is the only
step up that I can see. It is a man's wisdom that says to keep it for it's
merits. Vanity is not included. Remember this is a VW... It is a toy as
well when it comes to find the faults that will make you solve puzzles. The
list will help once you have tried all.
In case you have your heater to slow to heat up the whole car, it is time to
think of those in tents with their families in the mountains wrapped in
single blanket on bare ground, eating pretzels made in USA. Keeps you in
touch with reality. Also for all this, you only need one parking space and
one licence to pay.
Yada, yada, yada...
Zoltan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed L Lloyd" <elloyd10@JUNO.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 6:16 PM
Subject: New to List
> Hey, you guys are going to get me fired!
>
> I'm new to this list, found it from a recent article in the Wash Post
> newspaper, and signed on.
>
> It's amazing to find discussions of things I have dealt with over the
> years - flashing oil light, dripping heads, stopped odometer, parking
> garage problems, camping equipment questions, trip reports, practical
> advice and opinions, etc.
>
> I find myself reading each and every posting, whether about Roo bars in
> Australia, leaking heads in Mexico, or brakes and wheels in California or
> Canada, and working through the questions and problems in my mind as I
> follow the List comebacks.
>
> Now this is really putting a dent in my E-mail time. (Wife and teenage
> son are always trying to bump me off the computer so they can use it.)
>
> The solution I found was to forward the unread messages to myself at
> work. Now I spend a good portion of the next morning reading them and
> dodging my boss! Trouble is we recently got an e-mail "sniffer", which
> will surely nab me soon, but I can't stop.
>
> This leads to the question of why. What is so interesting about these
> postings? Why bother to keep the old van running? (It is a daily driver
> since I purchased it new in 87.)
>
> The wife and kids are hinting at trading it in on a new car, but I don't
> want to for some reason. I am fortunate enough to be able to pay cash
> for a new car if I wanted, but I don't want to.
>
> Does this mean I am becoming a van nut? Is there a way to have a job, a
> wife, and a Vanagon too? Any ideas on how to deal with this?
>
> Ed in Maryland
> 87 Westy
> The "Van with no Name,"
> at least not yet.
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