Date:         Sun, 15 Dec 2013 21:02:56 -0600
Reply-To:     JRodgers <jrodgers113@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         JRodgers <jrodgers113@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Gas question, seriously folks
Comments: To: Al Knoll <anasasi@GMAIL.COM>
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Pensionerd, I'm with you!

I run at 55mph - maybe 60 mph at times but never more. Just chug along
and enjoy the view through the Wide-screen. I like sitting high, wide
and handsome. I can SEE stuff!! Can't do that in low-slung performance
machines. Windshield angle is wrong, restricted visibility with weird
posts or columns. Plenty of room to eat, sleep, whiz as needs be. Haul
Gran-ma's sofa or that pallet load of bricks or the two 12 foot step
ladders borrowed from Uncle Joe last winter or the 4X8 sheets of
paneling for the new den or the 2X12 ceiling joist for the new garage!
Nothing - and I mean nothing - quite compares with a big-box Vanagon.

John

On 12/15/2013 2:43 PM, Al Knoll wrote:
>>
>> Actually David, it is a high performance car.
>>
>
>
>> It has sleeping, eating, birdwatching, skiing, poppygathering, moseying,
>> lookylooing, leafpeeping, fishing, in a "kompakt" performance package,
>> often imitated, rarely duplicated.
>>
> Add a modern motor and it quietly becomes a Q-ship.  A tardis with chutzpah!
>
> Mosey on, enjoy the ride, nothing to prove, a lot to be seen on the High
> Definition windscreen.  I do.
>
> Pensionerd.
>
>
>> What is wrong with driving within the capability of the vehicle?  I have
>> never experienced pinging with my '91 Campmobile with 2.1 Waterboxer
>> engine.  But then, I let it slow down on a grade, downshifting the manual
>> transmission when I feel it start to lug.  I drive at 58 mph generally on
>> the highway, and I let the wind slow me down if necessary.  I just don't
>> see the need to try to drive the thing like it is a "performance" car.  For
>> that matter, I don't see the need for "performance cars."
>>
>> David McNeely
>>
>