Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 06:01:15 -0400
Reply-To: David Gunning <davidgunning@PIVOT.NET>
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From: David Gunning <davidgunning@PIVOT.NET>
Subject: Re: Friday: Hybridengine VW
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Thanks for the chuckle, Mike.
Remembers me about the time me and Nancy were chugging along in south Texas
when this big ole boy with a twenty gallon cowboy hat comes over to the "48"
and asks, Son, what you smokin there in that there pipe, "Texas wacky
tabacky"?
They have an interesting way of slaughtering the english language in south
Texas.
Dave
davidgunning@pivot.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Collum" <collum@verizon.net>
To: "David Gunning" <davidgunning@pivot.net>
Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2006 9:19 PM
Subject: Re: Friday: Hybridengine VW
> Your pedal to the metal story reminds me of the Texan that was bragging to
> the Yankee saying that he could get into his pickup at dawn and by dusk he
> still hadn't reached the other side of his property. The Yankee said, yep
> ... I used to have a pickup like that myself.
>
> Mike
>
>
> David Gunning wrote:
>>
>> Fun story, Mike. Reminds of a similar oriented event, about 30 years
>> ago.
>>
>> Me and Nancy were coming back into the states after communing with the
>> California Gray Whales in Scammon's Lagoon, about half-way down the Baha.
>> Driving the ole "48" when, just south of San Diego, we were stopped by a
>> "chip" and issued a speeding ticket for going too slow. Geeze, I had my
>> pedal to the metal . . . . (go figger).
>>
>> Never paid the dang thing and never will.
>>
>> We have moved beyond the age of common sense, would be my guess.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> davidgunning@pivot.net
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Collum" <collum@VERIZON.NET>
>> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
>> Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2006 4:25 PM
>> Subject: Re: Friday: Hybridengine VW
>>
>>
>>> As to the imaginative cops ... would you believe, back in the '50s ... I
>>> actually got a ticket for wearing a seatbelt?
>>>
>>> The ticket was for using competition equipment on a public highway. You
>>> see, seatbelts weren't installed on any cars then and I used an aircraft
>>> harness in my '50 Ford.
>>>
>>> Full circle comes to mind.
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>>
>>> Robert Fisher wrote:
>>>
>>>> They must not have very imaginative cops in his neck of the woods.
>>>> Wouldn't mind having some of his skills when modifying a Vanagon.
>>>>
>>>> Cya,
>>>> Robert
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
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