Date:         Mon, 12 May 2008 06:51:46 -0700
Reply-To:     Anthony Egeln <regnsuzanne@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         Anthony Egeln <regnsuzanne@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Vanagons being called "Hippie Wagons"..
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<table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' ><tr><td style='font: inherit;'>The kids in my neighborhood insist on calling my Syncro the "Hippy Van"......this despite my best efforts to convince them that it is an SUV...Sport Utility Van!<br><br>Anthony<br>'89 Syncro GL (Hidalgo)<br><br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 5/12/08, Don Hanson <i>&lt;dhanson@GORGE.NET&gt;</i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Don Hanson &lt;dhanson@GORGE.NET&gt;<br>Subject: Vanagons being called "Hippie Wagons"..<br>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM<br>Date: Monday, May 12, 2008, 1:43 AM<br><br><pre>This has puzzled me.<br><br> I was one, a hippie.  Kinda proud of it, actually.  Hung out with the<br>counter culture, got beat over the head by the cops  at Century City during<br>the one war protest I attended, went to the Monterey Pop Festival...in my<br>'57 36hp South African splittie.  Vanagons were not
 gonna be produced for<br>another what, 12-15 years when  the Hippie movement was happening.  When the<br>Vanagon came along, all the hippies already shed their bellbottoms and had<br>real jobs, families and mortgages..<br>  I've had children call my '84 a "Hippie Van" a few times<br>recently...Sheesh!<br>   I remember when one of my buddies came back from California in his<br>*almost* brand new Bay window bus...All us "Hippies" kinda laughed at<br>him....but when it came time to go rock climbing or kayaking, we always took<br>Harry's bus, not the old beater split window hippie vans...And his would<br>start at -40 f, so he always got to drive us to work during the cold spells<br>in Wyoming.<br>  I guess to an outsider, one VW van is much like another...Come to think of<br>it, my present van does sort of feel similar to my 57, and I do sometimes<br>live in it..Maybe it IS a hippie van, still...so, does that make me a<br>Hippie, still?<br>  Don
 Hanson</pre></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>

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