Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 21:58:12 -0700
Reply-To: Robert Fisher <refisher@MCHSI.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Robert Fisher <refisher@MCHSI.COM>
Subject: Re: State Your Ages!
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Perhaps I'm the only one impolite enough to point it out... nah, not in this
list. : )
Maybe we should compare stories sometime, I can tell you about the night I
spent in a gay bar crushing some poor girl's (the female kind) hand.
As for the grey hairs... don't worry too much about 'em, you'll lose count
soon (I have anyway, and I ain't much older'n you... ).
Robert
'87 GL
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Palmer" <icecoldvw@HOTMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 9:36 PM
Subject: Re: State Your Ages!
> Yikes! Robert you must have been the only one to read my story. Perhaps
I
> should have mentioned the cross dressing strip bar on Bourbon Street I had
> the misfortune to enter.
>
> Well, it was actually 1992, not 2002. I am in a little bit of denial here.
> My second grey hair has just made a spring appearance. The first one
> involved the Bourbon Street incident . . .
>
> Jeff
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Fisher" <refisher@MCHSI.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 10:18 PM
> Subject: Re: State Your Ages!
>
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jeff Palmer" <icecoldvw@HOTMAIL.COM>
> > To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> > Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 11:59 AM
> > Subject: Re: State Your Ages!
> >
> >
> > > Let me begin by saying how nice it is to put a little history behind
the
> > > names that I've been reading for so long.
> > >
> > > I'm 32 and have had my 85 Westfalia GL for 11 years.
> >
> > ---clip---
> >
> > >I had bought it about July 1 2002, to take on a trip
> > > to New Orleans and Memphis for my 21st birthday
> >
> > ---clip---
> >
> > > Jeff
> > > 1985 Westfalia GL
> > > 1969 Type III notchback
> > > 1973 Safari ("Bread") now with a caring neighbour
> >
> > So I enjoy reading my list email each day, not only for the
> interesting
> > anecdotes and 'entertaining' personalities (ahem); but also for the
wealth
> > of information on what can go wrong with these vehicles and, in
> particular,
> > what can be done to fix them. I also enjoy my Vanagon (most of the time)
> but
> > Jeff, if you're telling me that one of the performance and/or design
> issues
> > with these things is that they can age you 11 years in just under two
> years
> > I'm gonna get rid of the damn thing quick.
> >
> > Come to think of it, as often as these things need their TLC, I
> suppose
> > they could put the years on ya... or at least feel like it. Maybe that
> > accounts for the 'senior slant' to the demographics of this list?
> >
> > All in fun,
> > Robert
> >
> > 1987 Vanagon GL (the wife wants to name it 'Garcia'?)
> >
> >
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