Date:         Sat, 3 Sep 2005 08:58:46 -0600
Reply-To:     jimt <camper@TACTICAL-BUS.INFO>
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From:         jimt <camper@TACTICAL-BUS.INFO>
Subject:      Re: Maybe now is the time to fill the tank of your extra car or
              "parts vanagon"
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I was stationed in CA at that time.  Five gallon limit didnšt bother me (4.5
gallons bone dry tank) and I just loved the motorcycle only pumps that some
stations put in.  one owner commented it was like a swarm of bees from all
the cycles zipping through his MC lane.  At that time I was running a
motorcycle.
jimt

On 9/2/05 10:02 PM, "BenT Syncro" <syncro@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> On 9/2/05, Rob <becida@comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> That's what Detroit thought back in '73, even after the first gas
>> 'crisis'. It wasn't until they saw all those Honda's & Toyota's out
>> there that they realized something might have changed.
>> FWIW in '73 I was sitting in those gas lines (on an even or odd
>> rationing day) in a '59 VW bus with the mighty 36hp engine.
>> 
>> Rob
> 
> Rob,
> Tom said MACHO American Men (MAM). Are VW bus driver's MAM's?
> For what it's worth, I was in those gas lines complaining about how
> ridiculous prices were when they went from 47 cents to 54 cents overnight.
> My macho 1965 Bug with the massive 40hp flat-4 was supplied by the stock 10
> gallon tank with the supplemental 24 gallon tank where the backseat normally
> is. You should have seen the look of those behind me who could not believe
> the little bugger was taking in so much gas.
> The 65 bug is gone. I still have the aluminum Long Ranger (brand) gas tank.
> Sound like it's time to break it out and try to fit it in to my diesel
> Vanagon Doublecab.
> BenT
> 
>