Date:         Mon, 10 May 2004 10:52:13 -0700
Reply-To:     "Brian T." <nobleman36@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         "Brian T." <nobleman36@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      State Your Ages!
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Well being a day late & a dollar short I missed this
post... Had a good excuse though!  Yesterday was my
b-day.

I am now 42.  I'm thinking something is amiss here
though & would like find the SOB that stole the 21
year old I used to see when I was shaving in the
morning!  Too much gray and the beggining of my
Grandpa droopy jaw line.  I suppose it should happen
and soon since I am also a grandpa!

My VW experience was mainly as a bug passenger.  My
folks had several as I was growing up.  One of my
grandpa's also was a VW fan.  He was a tree faller
here in the PNW and used a bug instead of a 4x4 to get
up the mountain!  He could take that thing just about
anywhere!

My first VW was all the way back in 1999 & it was a
73' Westy that sat in a field for about twelve years
as a rodent condo.  It was all I could afford after my
divorce and an absolute blast to restore!

I now drive an 85' weekender.  I am currently debating
what to do with it.  It is rusty and I'm not sure I
want to go through all the pain of doing things the
right way to remediate the rust (full body media blast
and cutting out the cancer etc...)

Anyway, that in a nutshell is me and my dub.

Cheers,
Brian