Date:         Thu, 22 Sep 2005 17:29:08 -0700
Reply-To:     John Bange <jbange@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         John Bange <jbange@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Road rage cause--Diesel powered vanagons - Driving Slow
In-Reply-To:  <43333C71.7000205@gmail.com>
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>
> Didn't someone here -- on some Yahoo Vanagon mail list, or on some Type
> 2 mail list -- make some comment about a bumper sticker that said
> something about having only 36hp? Having some aggressive a-hole in an
> F350 pickup trying to crawl up my tailpipe (a-hem!) on a freeway on-ramp
> this morning made me wish I had something on the back to let him know
> that "I'm givin' her all I've got!"
>

I was talkinging with my father the other day over IM about having to keep
my Boston Bob rebuilt under 55mph for the first 1000 miles or so. Back in
'84, we had gone on a camping trip up the Zion, Yellowstone, Banff direction
in our family's 73 Revcon. Somewhere about halfway between Jasper and Banff
the PLASTIC governer drive gear broke on the transmission, so we had to
drive 150 miles back to Banff at a top speed of 25mph down Icefields Pkwy,
keeping as far right as possible on this sometimes narrow road, with a sign
in the back window saying "Can't go any faster". Even with the sign, we got
no end of irate jackasses honking and flashing their brights.
Anyway, he said I should put a similar sign in the Vanagon, to which I
replied that it already HAS such a sign: a circle with a stylized VW in
it...

--
John Bange
'90 Vanagon
"Keine Bange, wir holen die Zange!"