Date:         Mon, 10 May 2004 18:52:17 -0700
Reply-To:     Jere Hawn <jghawn@COMCAST.NET>
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From:         Jere Hawn <jghawn@COMCAST.NET>
Subject:      Re: State of the List... State your ages!!!!!!! :<)
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Hi All,

I am now 45 going on 21.

My first car was a 64 1/2 Mustang.  Only had it for a year and then started
down the 65 Chrysler 300 path I've had 4 of them (413 engines, trunk seats
twelve).  I first got into Vanagons in 82 after I graduated from college.
The company I worked for in San Jose used them as company cars and I
frequently got to trade the rabbit (my company car) for the van.  I joined
the Navy and got a Toyota Celica and then a 84' CJ-7 Laredo and traded that
in when my son was born in 87 for a Chrysler LaBarron GTI (worse car ever)
then in 90 I bought my Vanagon GL which I still have with 305,000+ miles.
During its time "Herbie" has seen 2 Datsun 4x4's another 65 Chrysler 300 (2
door red) until 02 when I bought an 88 GL.  Today I am down to just the two
Vanagons.

What do I do with them, the 90 has been converted into a wanna-be Carat with
everything except the door side jump seat (don't want it) and the alloy
wheels (still looking) and I've added screen windows.  This one is the
camper and my to-and-from school car and the other one is the people carrier
for the kids.  I am considering getting rid of the 88 for parts and keeping
the power windows, cruise, and power locks for the 90.  But I'm still
viewing options, the digi-wife wants an Outback, or I may trade her in.

Jere
980 GL
88 GL