A Canadian friend of mine used to refer to my Vanagon as "the car of choice of the middle eastern terrorist." Seems that she saw remnants of several on CBC television news pretty frequently used a car/suicide bombs. Guess you can pack a lot of explosives in them. Of course, here in the US our international news doesn't show quite as much... Donald Baxter '85 GL Iowa City
----- Original Message ----- From: "pete owsianowski" <pnocean@EARTHLINK.NET> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 5:42 PM Subject: Vanagons on CNN
> Was treadmill running today listening to Phantom Planet on the headphones > and watching CNN at lunch. Did anyone see the Palestinian mourners place > the assassinated Hamas leader's coffin in a Vanagon? It was that early > Cream and Orange color, maybe an '82 or '83 diesel? > > Pete > '87 Westy > "Joe's Van" |
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