Date:         Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:37:36 -0800
Reply-To:     Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Age of listees
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Late entry, but I'm submitting an edited version of my
response from the last time this subject came up:

Age 53 and I’m not currently a VW guy, but I want a
Westy.  Bad.  (Three years later, I got my '87 Westy!)

First vehicle purchase was an engineless ’62 Beetle
with fabric sunroof.

A few years later in the military I bought a ’63
camper, which I now know to describe as a hatchroof
Westy split with a roof rack. Rust. Sold that and
bought Amurrican.

Later on got a ’76 Dasher wagon, which I loved.

Two years (now five years) ago a buddy gave up bay
Westies after 30 years and two vans.  I suddenly
developed the inexplicable and hitherto unfelt need
for a Vanagon Westy.  I’ve never driven a Vanagon, I
don’t camp, and the van I have now is, from everything
I’ve read on this list, a better vehicle in nearly
every respect, but I want a Westy and I’m dangerously
close to getting one.  We’ll see.  Meanwhile I’ll keep
posting Vanagon finds in Virginia.

(Well, now I have a Vanagon/bus/camper, we do camp in
it, and we really like it.  I think we feel younger
because of it.  Looking ahead to trips to the Badlands
and Baja.)

Stephen






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