Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 13:13:05 -0500
Reply-To: rgolen@UMASSD.EDU
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From: Ric Golen <rgolen@UMASSD.EDU>
Subject: Re: How long on the list?
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unka joel and the rest of vanagon-aholics,
You sure it was april 94 that the list started....I seemn to recall being
an "Eurovan" interloper on the Vanagon list when I bought my 93 Eurovan in
February 1993.....but then again wasn't the vanagon list originally the
"Type2" list, or is my memory hazy as well....
But regardless, I've been on since either 93 or 94 (based upon the
allybammah unka joel calendar).
Speaking of long timers, I bopped over to the Every Bus site (thinking of
taking John Hiatt's advice to "Drive South") and then connected to
T-shirts and over to Richard Palmer's site...and saw the Vanagon list
shirts from 95 onwards....Got me one of them 95 shirts...as well as the
later "special edition (re different shirt colors) t-shirts and even a
Vanagon list mug!!
Maybe we ought to come up with a "vanagon list" collectable list...got
even some of the "VW hubcap" and "VW Euro oval" list stickers from the
early days!
How many remember Unka Joel's highly irregular misuse of Allybamnah's tax
payers money - the updated-every-Fryeday list member list! Some folks have
had way too much time on their hands!! ;-)
What a long strange trip its been!!
Ric
>> Back in June 2000 I bought my first Westfalia, an '85 Vanagon
>> Wolfsburg camper "Camel". I joined the list sometime in the
>> spring of 2000 and have been a memeber with a few short breaks
>> since then. I still see the same names posting today I saw in
>> the early-for-me days. I do not post as much today, but I skim
>> over the subjects and pick out what looks interesting. My '84
>> Westy "Hershey" does not see as much use today as daily-driver
>> Camel did, but I still enjoy taking out for a ride now and then.
>>
>> How long have you been on the list?
>
> since before the age of the dinosaurs. :)
> did i ever tell you guys about dinosaurs??? ;)
>
> no, really. it was back in march or april of '94 when i claim to have
> nagged gerry skerbitz into starting the vanagon list
> on the computers at the university of minnesota. he got permission
> from his boss and that's when it started. we started
> pimping the list to all the bus folks who asked questions on the
> ...argh, can't remember what it was called. the thingie where they had
> all the separate categories, like autos.vw.bus ... and stuff like
> pictures.binary.clearsky.bluebird.stupid.droppings and so forth. the
> ancestor to the 'modern internet'. anyway, we suckered ...er,
> convinced people who had buses (not just vanagons) to move over to the
> mailing list. after a few years, the aircools got kinda tired of
> hearing about all the coolant leaking and head gaskets to they up and
> split off to their own lists, which is now split again into the type2
> list (www.type2.com ...where aircooled vanagons can find lotsa engine
> info) and the vintage bus list (for the old split-window buses).
> eventually, even the eurovans split off (sorry, don't recall the ev
> list name), and all we have left are the wasserleekers. ;) more or
> less, anyway.
>
> i can remember when we thought it was hot stuff cause we had ONE
> HUNDRED folks on the list!!! ;) that was back when i didn't have a
> real 'boss' and was told to sit and wait til i was told to do
> something. which lasted for about two years. :) so i had plenty of
> time to do the Frydaye Phollees and stupid poetry and such. for those
> of you with brain damage, those poems are still viewable on
> www.type2.com (click on Library, then click on the line above the
> picture). :)
>
> sigh.
>
> so little time and money, soooo many buses. :(
>
> unca joel
>
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