Date:         Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:06:42 -0700
Reply-To:     neil <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         neil <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: That VW Brown...
Comments: To: Don Hanson <dhanson@gorge.net>
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When I camped at Cape Dissapointment two nights ago, I didn't get the
old "knock on the van" asking for my fee. Figured my "Mr Hankey The
Chocolate Poop" brown van blended in so well, they just didn't see me.

I did pay, of course. And I didn't blend in either. "Look! There's
that wierd single guy in his hippie van!"

Thankfully I'm somewhat asthetically challenged, so the colour of my
van don't mean s**t to me.

Heh heh.....

As for ArVees, I could not believe the size of one particular one I
saw at Nehalem camp ground last week. I counted to 20 before I saw the
arss end of it.

UnFrikin-believeable.....

I just don't get that.


Neil.



On 4/24/07, Don Hanson <dhanson@gorge.net> wrote:
> "Turd-brown" someone called it..That is a distinctive 80s VW color, isn't it?  My 84 is that color and I am growing to really like it.
>  One day this spring when I had my Vanagon down in the desert (doing some medical tourisim to Mexico) I rode my bicycle up the Montezuma Grade west of Borrego Springs..From the mid-grade overlook, you can see for miles and miles. I could see every motorhome out on the desert, but not my 'stealth tur* brown' vanagon.  Why do they make all those motorhomes really white with all those dorky "swoops" of color all over em?  I mean, the VW vanagon might look like a shoebox, but those big motorhomes, they look like giant Nike running shoes with all those swoopies all over em...
>   The only change I might consider now in the color of my van might be to re-do a very light roof color (no poptop on mine) to help deflect the sun's heat from the interior.
>  Or, maybe I, too,  should do some Swoops and Ribbons and Arrows and crap, perhaps airbrush some animals on the back...Maybe a pride(?) of  Shrews or Voles  would fit on my smaller tailgait..or a Lemming..I know, a really nice rendering of a cockroach...!  Cool!..
>   Ever overnight at an RV park with your van?  You kinda get looked at like a cochroach sometimes, don'tcha?
>   Don Hanson
>


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Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia.

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