Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 11:54:42 -0600
Reply-To: Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
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From: Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
Subject: Re: Vanagon Sighting
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John and all,
I live about 100 miles north of you and there are quite a few here. Not
like CA, but I see them every day. There always have been a lot of
imports in this town because of both Redstone Arsenal, where GIs
returning from overseas have always brought interesting cars, and the
German rocket scientists at NASA.
I pulled into Target once and parked head-to-head with a mirror image
of my red 90 Carat. Eerie. When I wrote about it on the list, someone
warned me about parking so near another vanagon. Seems he had done it,
and came out to find the other car gone and some bits missing off of
his!
Jim
On Jan 7, 2005, at 8:44 AM, John Rodgers wrote:
> In Birmingham, Alabama and area any Vanagon sighting is a really rare
> event. These vehicles are definitely not popular here. However,
> Thursday
> I saw one.
>
> I went to the Jefferson State College campus just north of Birmingham
> near Pinson, Alabama, and as I pulled in to park in the parking lot, I
> spotted a vanagon. I was blown away. I was able to park right next to
> it.
>
> Now what made this van particularly interesting to me was that once
> parked, it was like looking in a mirror.
>
> My van is a 1988 Vanagon GL - Burgundy - manual tranny, gray interior,
> captains chairs with arm rests, folding rear seat, center seat,
> overhead
> factory air, heated power mirrors.
>
> There sitting right next to me was a 1988 Vanagon GL - Burgundy -
> manual
> tranny, gray interior, captains chairs with arm rests, folding rear
> seat, center seat, overhead factory air, heated power mirrors.
>
> Now how often does that happen??? Even the hubcaps were the same stock
> large slotted moon plastic hubcaps.
>
> As I sat there marveling at the mysterious ways of The Maker, I noticed
> one difference between the two vehicles. Mine has the fiberglass front
> and rear bunper and side panels at the door and rear, the other had
> metal bumpers only with endcaps. Other than that, and the fact that the
> over vehicle had paint a little more ratty than mine, the vehicles were
> serious look-alikes.
>
> Amazing for this town.
>
> John Rodgers
> 88 GL Driver
>
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