Date:         Sun, 5 Feb 2012 19:50:24 -0500
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From:         "Chris S." <szpejankowski@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Eye-opening encounter..
Comments: To: J Stewart <fonman4277@COMCAST.NET>
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Yeah, darn newfangled technology. It's all rubbish. Why do they keep making new cars anyway?

Chris.

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Dnia Feb 5, 2012 o godz. 18:28 J Stewart <fonman4277@COMCAST.NET> napisał(a):

> Yeah, if it was anything like my friends 2003 Eurovan Westfalia, not much to envy except that VR6 engine. Not much room, stupid electric "cooler" (holds a 6 pack) his canvas has already rotted and his a/c quit twice. Jeff Stewart ----- Original Message -----
>> Yesterday I was checking my email, sitting in my van in the parking
>> lot
>> of a public library in the desert SW. A quite new white Eurovan camper
>> pulled in beside me and the youngish couple got out and went inside.
>> When
>> they returned, the guy walked over and put his face against my window,
>> shading his eyes to see inside....He was a bit startled when I tapped
>> on
>> the window and said hello, from behind my dark tinted windows....He
>> began
>> asking me about my "old van"...and was amazed to discover it had been
>> built
>> the same year he was born.....A Swiss couple, touring the US in their
>> van.....Nice people..
>> I think I prefer my own van to theirs, though. I think mine works
>> better, has better ground clearance, and it certainly has "more
>> character". They didn't offer to trade, but if they had, they may have
>> been refused.......Wait.....I could have probably sold that fancy new
>> factory camper after a trade, and got about 20 vans like mine, or
>> maybe a
>> syncro and an inline VW 5sp like this one and had money left over.....
>> Don Hanson