VANAGON archives -- March 2004, week 4 (#222)

Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 12:54:30 -0500 Reply-To: David Brodbeck <gull@GULL.US> Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com> From: David Brodbeck <gull@GULL.US> Subject: Re: Vanagons on CNN Comments: To: "Donald Baxter / Iowa City, Iowa" <onanov@MINDSPRING.COM> In-Reply-To: <043a01c410f7$92d86c00$0300a8c0@donald> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Donald Baxter / Iowa City, Iowa wrote:

> 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.

For U.S. terrorists, the car of choice appears to be the Ryder panel truck.

David Brodbeck, N8SRE '82 Volkswagen Diesel Westfalia '86 Volvo 240DL wagon

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