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Date:         Sun, 9 May 2004 20:42:34 -0500
Reply-To:     Larry Alofs <lalofs@RCN.COM>
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From:         Larry Alofs <lalofs@RCN.COM>
Subject:      Re: State of the List... State your ages!!!!!!! :<)
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They tell me I was born in 1947, so I guess I'm 57.

In 1972 my wife and I had just moved to Chicago and my dad was a dealer in cheap used cars and trucks in western Michigan. He let us have a '67 Fastback (type 3) for $400. About a week later it was totaled when we got rear ended on Lake Shore Drive. We had liked that type of vehicle and found another Fastback at a misc. dealer. It was a '69 and had fuel injection! My wife drove that car for many years and it was very reliable. I soon bought another type 3, a '70 squareback. Eventually we moved up to a 411 wagon for me and a 412 for her. When our two girls got beyond the toddler stage and I bought a '76 van to help haul things, we started camping in it; I built a platform in the back and put boards in the middle and the front for the kids. We had a memorable trip out to the west coast with that van, along with some memorable electrical problems. Eventually we bought our first Vanagon (named Flanagon), an '80, 7 passenger and set up the same type of sleeping platforms. When we got our '84 Wolfsburg it had a real fold down bed and heat! By then the kids were big enough that we moved them out to a tent. For the past 5 years or so we've had a '91 GL with a fold down bed and table and jumpseats poorly installed by a PO. We camp in it 4 or 5 times each summer and are looking forward to more of the same when we retire in a year or two. We have also had a series of Rabbits and presently own a '94 Golf, but our oldest daughter seems to have taken it away. But there is still a Saab 900 that the youngest daughter doesn't want any more and a misc. Cherokee or two. So it goes...

Larry A.


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