Date:         Tue, 11 May 2004 14:13:14 -0400
Reply-To:     Tim Demarest <tim.demarest@POBOX.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Tim Demarest <tim.demarest@POBOX.COM>
Subject:      Re: State Your Age
Comments: To: "Root, Tim" <TRoot@CHARTERCOM.COM>
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Hello, my name is Tim, I'm 40, and I'm addicted to Volkswagens...

Here are all the cars I've owned, in order:

1976 AMC Gremlin (was my mom's car first... I would never have picked this
one out myself :-).
1973 Super Beetle
1974 Opel Manta - (got it after my sister cooked the engine... I sold it
without fixing it, but this is the first German engineered car I ever
drove. The addiction set in instantly).
1987 Fox (My first-ever New Car).
1997 Jetta (Still my daily driver)
1985 Vanagon Westfalia (drivable, but somewhat gutted until this weekend :-)


 > I did not actually buy a Volkswagen until 1990. I bought a new  VW Fox
> > Wagon and drove it until 1997 (240,000 miles). If I could have bought
> > another just like it for twice the price I would have, but no more wagon
> > after 1990.

Too true! that 1987 Fox (two door sedan) was the all-around best car I've
ever driven. Great road feel, and dead-solid reliable for all ten years
that I owned it.

> > I had always admired the looks of the Jetta and bought a new Jetta in
> > 1997. It now has 206,000 miles on it. Not nearly the car (utility wise,
> > too low slung) as the Fox.

Too true again. My '97 Jetta is a fairly good car, but nothing compared to
that darn Fox. A lot lower, a lot heavier in the turns, and not *nearly*
the fuel economy. I one drove the Fox from northern NJ to Baltimore and
back on the same tank of gas... and I have a heavy foot on the freeway
(kids, don't try this in a Jetta!)