Date:         Sat, 23 Jul 2005 07:36:49 -0400
Reply-To:     JonR <jon.hathaway@VERIZON.NET>
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From:         JonR <jon.hathaway@VERIZON.NET>
Subject:      Re: Le Tour VWs
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Jeffrey Vickers wrote:

> Good to know other suffer the same affliction.
>
>>
>> Subject: Le Tour and vw's
>>
>> I'm very much enjoying the tour with Lance wining but I'm wondering if
>> others like me are checking out all the vw's on the sides of the roads.
>> I was watching stage 10 last night,
>

>> Anyway I find myself rewinding to check out all the
>> cool campers buses and vanagons.. My girlfriend says I'm nuts but I
>> know there must be others on the list enjoys the side attraction.
>>
>>
>> From:    Sam P <samhp@YAHOO.COM>
>> Subject: Re: Le Tour and vw's
>>
>> I also noticed the numerous vanagons while watching the "tour".  There
>> also seems to be other models of vans, non-VW, with similar angled
>> pop-tops. We may be missing some very interesting campers that are not
>> available in the states.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm doing the same thing. Though on a TiVo, and I'm not so far behind.
>> "Look!" I say, rewinding and slo-mo-ing a segment while the breakaway
>> group is rounding a mountain turn. "A Vanagon Westy . . . and they seem
>> to have some kind of tent on the back!"
>>
>> Mrs Squirrel looks at me. "You're a moron," she declares.
>>
>>
I just picked up the 3rd and 4th Herbie movies from Walmart a couple
weeks ago and just got around to watching one last weekend.  In the
first five minutes of Herbie goes to Monte Carlo" I saw 4 or 5 early LT
Vans, a few Bay & Splittie Westies, dozens of commercial Bays, and
hundreds of Beetles and Type IIIs.  My eight and ten year old nephews
got into the game, standing next to my 38" widescreen HD TV laughing,
screaming, and pointing "There's one, There's one!"  My wife and
Sister-in-law kept saying we were absolutely insane...  But we had fun,
so so what...

I've already invited them over for a showing of "Herbie goes Bananas"  <<G>>

JonR

'79 LT 28 D highroof
'87 Syncro GL