Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 08:10:37 -0500
Reply-To: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject: Re: Warning!!! Check Your Speedometer
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buy it whenever I sell it ..............
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Sell it now before you get the rest of the surprises coming at you.
Stan Wilder
83 Air Cooled Westfalia
On Sat, 11 May 2002 08:57:50 EDT Ronald Gregory Smithers
<Rgsmithers@AOL.COM> writes:
> What a busy, busy day I had yesterday and I learned something very
> important.
> Everyone, check your speedometers!!!! They may be showing the
> speed in
> kilometers per hour and that is ***much*** different from miles per
> hour!
>
> My dear friend, Thor, and I tried to take the Vanagon to be detail
> cleaned
> and polished yesterday. After driving on the four lane highway for a
> few
> miles, Thor, who was following me, started to flash the headlights
> like an
> insane man. Not knowing what was wrong and more than a
> ***little***
> panicked, it was all I could do to pull over without wrecking. I
> jumped out
> expecting something to be drastically wrong only to be told by Thor,
> in a
> rather snippy tone, that I was driving too slowly. Although I kept
> going
> faster and faster, this same scene was acted out by us twice more in
> ten
> miles. By the third time we stopped, Thor was having a
> ***hissyfit****!!!
> As I thought I had been driving at an absolutely terrifying 85 miles
> per
> hour, we decided that my speedometer must be broken.
>
> Instead of the car detail shop, we dropped the Vanagon at the
> Volkswagen
> dealership. My spirits were lifted when we returned to pick up the
> Vanagon
> because there is nothing wrong with the speedometer mechanism. :)
> It is only
> that the speedometer shows the speed as kilometers per hour which is
> slower
> than miles per hour. Look on the face of your speedometer; if it
> says
> "km/h", drive faster. I know this is hard to believe, but it will
> show 100
> (!!!!) when you are going sixty miles per hour. Paco, the
> mechanic,
> explained it all to me. Also, he was very excited about my van and
> he would
> like to buy it whenever I sell it. You meet the ***nicest*** people
> when you
> are driving a Vanagon!
>
> Pinky
>
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