Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 18:26:54 -0700
Reply-To: Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
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From: Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Vanagon spotting on Maryland's Eastern Shore (longish)
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Found myself on Tilghman's Island in the Chesapeake
Bay on Saturday for the town's annual festival and saw
a gold Westy with some rust parked at Dogwood Harbor,
a brown-and-tan Westy in the RV parking area in town,
and a silver Westy decorated with hand-painted flowers
at a Mercedes/Saab shop near Easton on 33 on the way
back to the campground, and thought I'd done pretty
well for myself.
Heading home this morning I turned east on MD Route
213 (about 17 miles from the Bay Bridge on U.S.50) to
investigate a silver hardtop I'd spotted on the way
down and found a gold mine!
The place had no sign, no identification, no hint as
to the name, but searching on the phone number on the
silver van's windows produced the identification of
Dick Potter's Autohaus in Wye Mills MD. 410-827-2501.
In addition to the one vehicle for sale, there were
several licensed VW cars and vans presumably belonging
to customers. Here's a sample of the unlicensed
treasures. Don't call me; I just find 'em.
1 Syncro Westy dragged in from Delaware, it looks
like. Been sitting a while elsewhere judging by the
dirt marks on the tires. Rust bubbles around the
windshield, dented hatch and left rear corner. Looked
complete and mostly okay otherwise, ~170K on the odo.
1 '91 white GL hardtop automatic with alloys and a
wheelchair lift. Very nice.
At least 2 diesel hardtop Vanagons. One on the paved
lot in back and another down in the field. Draw your
own conclusions.
1 aircooled Vanagon Westy. Several other Vanagon
Westies in varying condition, from "cancerous with
good interior" to "why isn't someone driving this?"
A dozen or so other Vanagons, a couple of dozen bay
vans of various descriptions, a couple of ratty
Microbuses, a Eurovan, and that doesn't begin to list
the VW cars from Rabbit pickups (2 or 3 complete and
other junkers) to turbo diesel Quantum wagon (I want
it!) and the expected Jettas and Golfs, Ghias,
Squarebacks and Bugs.
Maybe he sells them, maybe he hoards them. Maybe he
doesn't want to part with a single one. Don't ask me.
Stephen
(whose odometer fix appears to be partial and
intermittent and prone to stopping occasionally at
xx9.9 on the reset)
P.S. To the driver of the red bay Westy in Annapolis;
I would have waved but I was busy trying not to run
out of gas. It was sputtering when I pulled up to the
pumps and took 15.61 gallons. I gotta stop living
like this.
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