Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 12:54:34 -0700
Reply-To: Jeffrey Earl <jefferrata@YAHOO.COM>
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From: Jeffrey Earl <jefferrata@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: Dr. Diesel meets Mr. Harley
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Ha! Excellent suggestions!
The Martha-Stewert possibilities are endless. With a
lovely pine-scent, my camper van would always smell
like the great northwoods, even when I'm only
commuting to work ...
--- Tromper <tromper@comcast.net> wrote:
> Since the olfactory senses of that kind of fellow,
> and interior
> designers are very sensitive I suggest you use some
> "Floral" Scented
> lamp oil in your fuel mix for the interim. This
> should not only
> help your power and mileage a bit, it will also
> improve the odor
> of your exhaust and all who ride motorcycles in it.
> I don't know what effect the floral scent will have
> on your injectors
> but the vanilla didn't do anything detectable to
> mine.
>
> Tromper
> 82 Dieselfant II
> Formerly Vanilla, now Gas scented exhaust
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List
> [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
> Of Jeffrey Earl
> Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 11:32 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Dr. Diesel meets Mr. Harley
>
>
> As some of you may or may not know, Milwaukee is
> currently hosting the 100th birthday of
> Harley-Davidson Motorcycles, with 200,000 to 300,000
> riders and spectators expected to attend. So streets
> and highways in this entire part of the state are
> crawling with these over-chromed and under-muffled
> mechanical anachronisms. Many of their portly and
> unwashed owners apparently secretly suffer from
> chronic testosterone deficiencies, for which they
> compensate by needlessly twisting the throttle at
> stoplights, and roaring around town, weaving thru
> traffic.
>
> This morning on my daily freeway commute in my 1983
> diesel Westfalia, a routine check of my mirror
> revealed a Harley rider approaching from behind,
> presumably on his way to the barbarian festivities.
> As
> luck would have it, we soon began ascending a hill
> and
> my 1.6L diesel briefly went into her James Bond
> smoke-screen mode, laying down a pretty good trail
> of
> soot. The leather-bound biker immediately changed
> lanes to avoid the hazy billows of smoke, and the
> clattery 'blap-blap-blap' of his rusty steed soon
> grew
> even louder as we crested the hill and he finally
> passed me.
>
> As he went by I saw that he wore an old-timey
> leather
> cowboy duster with furred collar, a greasy red
> bandanna, and an incongruous pair of
> fluorescent-green-framed mirrored sunglasses. The
> big
> engineering boots and lack of helmet told me that
> he,
> perhaps quite rightly, placed more value on his
> yellowed toenails then the contents of his cranium.
> As
> the two-wheeled desperado pulled back into the lane
> ahead of me, he looked back over his shoulder and
> very
> theatrically pinched his nose, the universal sign
> for
> "phew, you stink."
>
> I considered this for a moment and acknowledged
> that,
> at least momentarily, he was quite correct, then
> replied by pasting my face into the windshield and
> making a big show of plugging my ears with my
> fingers
> while grimacing and shaking my head.
>
> He stiffened in the saddle and seemed to falter a
> bit
> as he glared at me in his own mirror, his ten little
> piggies conferring amongst themselves to interprete
> my
> gesture and formulate a response. Finally,
> frustrated
> at having run out of clever visual retorts, he
> delivered to me the internationally recognized
> middle-fingered salute, and with a flatulant roar
> rode
> off into the sunrise.
>
> I don't know who got the last or best word in this
> little morning exchange on the highway, but at least
> until after the weekend, I'll be sticking to the
> back
> roads ...
>
> Jeffrey Earl
> 1983 diesel Westfalia "Vanasazi"
>
>
>
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