Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 08:48:29 -0400
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From: Eric Zeno <vw4x4@FYI.NET>
Subject: Re: State of the List... State your ages!!!!!!! :<)
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My turn.......................
44 year old bachelor that has had to redefine the word, as most
people have this image
of what a bachelor is like. I'm my own boss, in some sense, as I made
it clear, years ago,
I'm not going to put up with answering to anyone, who is less capable
than I am.
As I was growing up, my dad being the efficient person he is,
had a 1965 BUG,
followed by a 1970, witch was promptly stolen. Of coarse , my first
car, at age 14,
had to be a 1968 BUG. I spent many days working on it learnng about
cars, saving
my paper route money to buy parts. This dream ended abruptly in a near
head on
collision, witch BTW was blamed fully on the other driver. Followed
recovery,
My second vehicle was a 1970 Plymouth Duster (mistake). I traded this
for a1969 bug.
The years started moving fast, and I've been thru many vehicles, but
always had
VW's of some kind. I've had a 77 rabbit, 72 Ghia, 85 Golf, 73 SUper
beatle.
In 1985 I purchase a 1980 Vanagon, to camp for the summer. It had a brand
new engine in it, and was a great time, witch I will never forget. In
1990 I was in
the middle of several legel problems and trade it for a 1986 Vanagon.
In 1996 I
purchase my current 1986 Syncro. In 1997 purchase a parts Syncro, witch I am
now driving, called Vanagon SS, (or Vanagon Second Synco). Over the
last few
years, I have purchase several VW's just for part. I have the titles,
for maybe 15
vehicles, that I have parted out, and a few parts vehicles I have no
tiltes for,
including another syncro, (thanks Walt). At this stage of the game I'm
loosing
track of them all. That's one reason I thought of writing this. To
documnet
what I can remember. Maybe to much coffee. Gotta run..............
ERic
>i think it would be a cool thread to see the average ages of people on the
>list...and why you like vw vans, or why you bought your van..and if you used it
>for your your family, or just yourself.. ive been on the list since the mid
>90's when i was in my early 20's.. and i just rolled over the big Three Ohhh
>(big three ohh sh*t im still single) not long ago and i am as furthest away
>from any "hippy" culture stereotypization <--is that even a word? ) as you can
>get.. i just like vw vans because they're vw's.. im also a part of that
>go-fast annoying loud exaust and lowered GTI crowd that many of you hate too.. :<)
>why do i like vw vans? because they look cool and you can carry big stuff in
>them. lame answer, but thats pretty much it :<) am i into camping? nope.
>not one bit. i think i slept in my current van once..because i had to.. LOL
>..well id probably be more into camping if i had someone to camp with..(no pity
>party please!!) ive owned plenty of Westys before, but would never want one as
>my own to keep. Anyway, ive owned just about every year vw van from '67 on
>up to 91.. the interest has turned into somewhat of a hobby over the years, and
>ive parted out various vans over the years to fix someting i had at the time,
>and then sell what i dont need.... the accumilation of vw van/bus parts
>comes and goes (have big barn, will accumilate schtuff) and i go to all the east
>coast shows i can, sometimes showing one of my cars (i just have 2 vws myself)
>or setting up at the swap meet selling stuff i dont need.. when you are
>single, you need something to occupy your spare time, so the vw hobby does that
>nicely :<) (hmmm maybe that IS why im single LOL) and to ben's earlier remark..
>no i am not a 'dealership' ..i have a real job (doesnt pay much, but it is a
>real job LOL).. the 3 or 4 vw parts i sell a month is hardly enough to survive
>on LOL maybe i chould change my email addy to chrisT@aol.com .. funny thing
>the "vw" in my email address doesnt even stand for volkswagen... :<)
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>so anyway, tell us how old you are..and what got you into vw's...and what you
>use your van for... should be a good read!
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>chris
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