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Date:         Fri, 14 Sep 2012 06:51:28 -0700
Reply-To:     Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Fraydaye -- What Was Your Favourite Westy Moment This Week?
In-Reply-To:  <5052C935.5060101@turbovans.com>
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Mine was when my current client told me that the doors he'd ordered weren't coming in until Monday. So I stuffed all my tools back in the van and went home, dumped all those into my shop and put all my windsurfing gear inside, instead of those dusty old tools. I didn't even have to take out the bicycle gear....Out came the table saw, the compressor, a couple of saw horses, a chop saw table, tool boxes, levels clamps, etc etc. In went two sailboards, 5 sails, two masts, two booms, wetsuits, etc. Off I went with a huge tailwind, heading east up the Columbia River to my favorite "beach" about 60 miles east. A couple of sessions in perfect 40mph winds...a nice lunch cooked in the kitchen, a short nap in back...and a noisy trip back 'upwind' into the 40+ mph gusts made for an almost perfect day. Don Hanson On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 11:05 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans < scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:

> People like these things. > I was waiting at a red light in my basically cherry/original 82 Sunroof > 2-tone, Yellow Diesel Vanagon .. > someone going by in the left turn lane yelled out ..'Nice Van ! ' > > I'll take that ! > > > On 9/13/2012 10:30 PM, Stephen Engel wrote: > >> Well, I have a tin top, but during one trip I had two moments. Someone >> in a 2nd gen. Jetta flashed me a peace sign and >> kids playing football stopped play to point and wave! >> >> >> ______________________________**__ >> From: Gabriel Hourtouat <ghourtouat@GMAIL.COM> >> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM >> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 12:50 AM >> Subject: Fraydaye -- What Was Your Favourite Westy Moment This Week? >> >> Mine: >> Sunny, mid-day family outing to the library. Parallel park in front >> of a restaurant between SUPER! swanky, lovely green Porsche and some >> big Audi. Wifey says "look" -- kids wave to the faces watching us >> through the restaurant windows. It's so innocent that the faces wave >> back. Park job is perfection in one movement, stop engine, wheels >> coast to the curb. Side door opens. Nalgene water bottle and >> children's toys make a racket as they tumble out of the van and spread >> across the sidewalk. Kids and parents laugh, as if on cue. >> >> Same faces watch us pull out of the parking spot 20 minuts later. >> Exhaust leak (which has graduated from "tick tick tick" and is >> no-longer self-sealing when hot) accelerates slowly into the distance >> - fut......fut.....fut....fut...**fut..fut.fut.fut.fut. wifey laughs -- >> she loves the sound of the engine. >> >> she wants me to go see Frank C and Rita again. >> >> she wants us to get an orange bus. >> >> she's crazy. >> >>


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