Date:         Sat, 19 Mar 2011 13:39:53 -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: Owsley died
Comments: To: Rob <becida@comcast.net>
In-Reply-To:  <vanagon%2011031916065564@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
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I agree with Rob.

If it wasn't for Owsley and the Grateful Dead and Woodstock and The Who many
of us would never have been turned on to VW bugs and buses in the first
place.  In some ways you could say that the sixties drug culture and the
Summer of Love were responsible for Volkswagen gaining a meaningful market
share in North America.

I don't have time to lay it all out for you young people but hippies and
Volkswagen buses are forever intertwined!

Jake

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Rob <becida@comcast.net> wrote:

> I again disagree with you Ben, just because you don't have a
> connection between Owsley and the VWs doesn't mean that it's not
> there. FWIW I did think about this before I sent it.
> Then again this is your list not mine. I'll stop.
>
> Rob
>
>
>
> At  3/19/2011 12:20 PM,BenT Syncro wrote:
>
>> Comments best reserved for Friday. I've read the full article. He's
>> an interesting fellow but nothing remotely connecting him to
>> Vanagons or even VW buses. Unless you consider the Grateful Dead
>> stickers as Vanagon related. Nevertheless, Friday please.
>>
>>
>> BenT
>> Mod
>>
>> On Mar 19, 2011, at 10:46 AM, Rob <becida@COMCAST.NET> wrote:
>>
>> > Some people will make the connection between Owsley and the VW bus
>> > (Vanagon)....
>> >
>> > Rob
>> > becidarob@gmail.com
>> > ````````````````````````````````````
>> > http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/15/us/15stanley.html?_r=1
>> >
>> > March 14, 2011
>> > Owsley Stanley, Artisan of Acid, Is Dead at 76
>> > By MARGALIT FOX
>> > Owsley Stanley, the prodigiously gifted applied chemist to the stars,
>> > who made LSD in quantity
>> > for the Grateful Dead, the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Ken Kesey and other
>> > avatars of the
>> > psychedelic '60s, died on Sunday in a car accident in Australia. He
>> > was 76 and lived in the
>> > bush near Cairns, in the Australian state of Queensland.
>>
>


--
Jake

1984 Vanagon GL 1.9 WBX - 'The Grey Van'
1986 Westy Weekender/2.5 SOHC Subie - 'Dixie'

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