Date:         Mon, 13 Oct 2003 18:41:37 -0700
Reply-To:     Mike Miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Mike Miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
Subject:      Re: Vanagons galore in the Twin Cities
Comments: To: Julia Schrenkler <ckjas@MN.RR.COM>
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Good question?

Mike

On 10/13/03 6:25 PM, "Julia Schrenkler" <ckjas@MN.RR.COM> wrote:

> Sunday 10/12 I took my best friend for his first ride in the Westy, and
> just as he was commenting on how he rarely sees them but we pass a white
> one with Colorado plates docked at East End Imports repair shop. (hope
> it isn't there for anything serious.) Quick spin along the river road
> and tooling down Grand Ave I spy two Westies in quick succession - a
> nice brown & tan number turning the corner and a modded out dark grey
> syncro parked in front of a coffee shop. By now he's speechless, and I'm
> smiling like mad. We pull into the station a few blocks later for fuel
> and wouldn't you know it, a guy with a great grin in a grey/blue vanagon
> is popping into a parking spot. All this in the first 40 minutes of
> driving him around! I wish I averaged a Vanagon sighting every ten
> minutes every day, but this made my Sunday and my car-spotting friend
> was floored. If anyone from the Twin Towns saw a smiling fool in a dark
> grey Westy waving at you like her heart was going burst with sheer joy,
> well, that was me.
>
> That said, now I'm curious. Any estimates to how many remain on the
> road?
>
> -Julia
> '89 Westy
> Minneapolis MN
>
>