Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 21:55:47 -0500
Reply-To: Jim Akiba <syncrolist@BOSTIG.COM>
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From: Jim Akiba <syncrolist@BOSTIG.COM>
Subject: Re: something to think about ... :)
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Ha what a great find... scan that for posterity...
80 in a vanagon I can believe.. it'd be tight for sure. PLEASE put up
scans so we can see!
I think it was 9 that we squeezed into an 88 supra once, and drove it
to a pizza place. Only a couple guys were small, we ranged from 103 to
250... it was most of varsity wrestling and our coach ha The worst
part is that we all weigh 30 or 40 pounds more each now. An
impossible "achievement" to repeat I suppose ha
The only other interesting stuffing one, was when my buddy chiu ran a
fortune cookie kitchen, and we were delivering boxes of cookies in an
old bronco because his delivery van broke down. I remember not being
able to see him at all, as boxes separated us between the front seats
to the roof ha.. we got over 30k cookies into it at once.. I bet a
vanagon could EASILY drive 250k fortune cookies based on that.
"When the time comes, choose the top one" <- head tilting fortune
cookie wisdom on our fridge right now.. I have yet to get a genuine
tautology, but I've gotten close.
Jim Akiba
On 2/1/08, Joel Walker <jwalker17@earthlink.net> wrote:
> i'm browsing through my collection of junk, some of which is kept in 3-ring binders, and ran across this little blurb from the old vwoa magazine they would send out to vw owners.
>
> "Official Van Jamming
>
> "beetle stuffling" was a popular fad in the sixties, when groups tried to stuff as many people as possible in a Beetle. Anywhere from 18 to 103 college students have been known to squeeze into a Beetle.
>
> Now, VW is running an official Volkswagen Van Jam as a special halftime event at 12 Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL) games, sponsored by Volkswagen United States. The object is for local youth groups to stuff themselves into Vanagons.
>
> There will be two Vanagons at each game and VW will donate $20 for each member of the winning team to the local Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) chapter.
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> So far, the best space utilization occurred in San Diego, when 80 people squeezed themselves into a Vanagon, and the local MADD chapter gained $1600."
>
> now, i MIGHT believe 80 people in a vanagon, based on the pictures that accompany the article ... i can see eight heads and seven pairs of feet in the rear hatch opening alone. but i ain't believing no 103 people in a VW beetle!!!
> maybe ON it as well as IN it, that is, hanging on the roof/hood/running boards/trunk/bumper/etc ... but there is no way that MORE people are gonna fit IN a beetle than in a vanagon. :)
>
> unca joel
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