Date:         Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:17:53 -0700
Reply-To:     Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: No F#%*#@&ing Way...I won't be One of Those!!
Comments: To: Miguel Pacheco <escorpion1955@yahoo.com>
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Attaboy Miguel!   Monetary fortune comes and goes but Vans are forever.   :)

On 8/13/07, Miguel Pacheco <escorpion1955@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I have read so many postings about the hard times and how the Van must be
> sold to make room in the garage, the wife wants it out, we need the cash,
> etc. Well, tonight I put my fist down and I says nooooo way! I am really
> in
> the most intense financial scrape that I have ever known (self induced
> towards a comfy retirement) and an easy way to ease the pain right now
> would
> be to sell 'Fritz' so I really stumped my SO when I told her tonight that
> I
> would not sell Fritz, no way! What the hell would I drive to the tip? (of
> South America...stay tuned.)...Man, I have had so many of these vans and
> would you believe me if I told you that I lived in a 71 Dormobile
> (Tortuga)
> on Catch 22 beach in 1977, would you believe me? Hell yes you would, but
> would you believe that I sold it (and I regret that)? Now that's a little
> harder to believe! Like so many other things, we just go right through
> them
> without thinking. The reason would be a replay of that record, blaming a
> divorce, breakup, marriage, room in the garage, bla bla bla. But no more.
> This is the one and yes, Fritz is taking me back to my homeland, to the
> tip!!
> Please excuse the rant but it is as if I can resurrect my VW ills with a
> little good.
> My grandson has been begging me ,'please don't sell Fritz, Granpa!' He'll
> be
> happy tomorrow!
> So I won't be one of those!! Cheers. Miguel
>



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Jake
1984 Vanagon GL
1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
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