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Date:         Fri, 3 Apr 2009 19:34:59 -0700
Reply-To:     Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Where is Mecca?
Comments: To: Matthew Snook <matt@snooksband.com>
In-Reply-To:  <2A0B95EDA6F14E8D8D6723C54DF3FD51@Bohemian>
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Vancouver has thousands of them.

They don't show up on Joel's List because the owners are too busy using them as everyday cars to bother with Lists of any kind.

For the same reason, there's no wild waving when two Vanagons pass - I saw more than a dozen on my way to work this morning....

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Matthew Snook <matt@snooksband.com> 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 >

-- Jake

1984 Vanagon GL 1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"

Crescent Beach, BC

www.crescentbeachguitar.com http://subyjake.googlepages.com/mydixiedarlin%27


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