Date:         Fri, 3 Apr 2009 13:49:51 -0500
Reply-To:     Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Where is Mecca?
Comments: To: John Rodgers <inua@charter.net>
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Back in 1990, right after I bought my new red Wolfsburg, a German
client came through town to visit and fell in love with it. VW
apparently didn't sell that model in Germany, or so he said. "They are
all work trucks."

He was on his way to set up his business in Saratoga CA. He almost had
me buy one here and drive it out there because I could get $500 under
sticker here in north alabama but he had to pay thousands over sticker
to get one there, which he finally did.

It was the SysKonnect company car for years in Saratoga and then in
San Jose. I drove it all over the place out there. Orly Blue.

Jim

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 1:34 PM, John Rodgers <inua@charter.net> wrote:
> What is it with Vanagons and the East Coast vs the West Coast. Here in
> Alabama I associate with the east coast, and Vanagons are few and far
> between. I rarely ever see a Vanagon in the Birmimgham area - although I
> do see them. I can go months and not see a one. When I was in Santa Fe
> there were quite a few. But from discussions, the left coast is where
> they are in great numbers. What differences in attitudes might have
> created such a phenomenon - few on the right coast, more on the left coast?
>
> John Rodgers
> 88 GL Driver
>
> Matthew Snook wrote:
>>
>> I spent the day not looking for Westies.  I parked my mobile office ('84
>> Westy) and did some writing at the Mt. Tabor park, relaxed by playing
>> dobro
>> at a Gypsy Jazz jam session on Division Street in the evening, and parked
>> overnight at a friend's house, all in SE Portland.  I've never seen so
>> many
>> Westies and other vanagons!  (My friend -another musician- even drives a
>> stripped out diesel Vanagon.)  So I got to wondering, what is the Westy
>> Mecca?  Where is the highest density of vanagons to be found?  I know it's
>> a
>> rhetorical question.  Just wondering where folks seem to see the most
>> Westies and Vanagons.  :)
>>
>> Matt
>>
>>
>>
>