Date:         Tue, 11 May 2004 21:44:53 -0400
Reply-To:     Wolfgang Ziegler <ziegler@PRINCETON.OILFIELD.SLB.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Wolfgang Ziegler <ziegler@PRINCETON.OILFIELD.SLB.COM>
Subject:      State Your Age / addicted to VW
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Hi,
age 45
addicted to Vw's - lurking and getting help from this list to keep our
beloved '88GL going....

earliest VW memory I have is sitting in the back of my Dad's white '62 bug
- I mean the back behind the rear seats:) was about 4 years then - My
parents always had VW's back home - 62 Bug, 68 Fastback, 68 Bug, 72 K70,
80's Passat (Dasher), I inhereted most of them over the years, I really
enjoyed the K70, but it was totally uneconomical.

My wife and I later owned a converted '76 ambulance as a camper - took us
all over France. Then a 79 Vanagon which we converted from an orange
delivery van to a nice red camper, which I sold almost with tears to follow
another dream: we moved to the US - here many trips in a modified '73
Squareback (extended rear bench to actually sleep in it), '86 Vanagon, '88
Vanagon, 79 convertible, 2002 Jetta (job required transportation)  and now
a 99 EV camper. We still own the last 4 VWs, but are thinking of selling
the Vanagon this year, not an easy decision, but insurance is way too high
in NJ to keep 4 cars.

I enjoyed reading other member's VW history -
cheers, Wolfgang