Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 16:15:52 -0800
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From: Zeitgeist <gruengeist@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Versatile Vanagon opens MoHo owner's eyes
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I'm convinced that most folks don't value utility and practical
considerations very highly when it comes to vehicle purchases; case in
point the SUV craze of the '90's. Besides, these vans are subjectively
quite ugly to most tastes, which trumps all the utility in the world. Face
it, we're just a self-selecting group of weirdos, and no amount of
rationalizing is going explain away that basic fact.
On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, in a backhanded way, it sorta does. If you had everything a Vanagon
> has in a package that got terrible gas mileage, wouldn't fit inside a home
> garage, was too big to drive and park around town, and nobody knew how to
> work on, you probably wouldn't want it. In the Vanagon's case, small is
> better.
>
> Jim
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 5:34 PM, Raimund Feussner <ray@v6bus.de> wrote:
>
> > Size doesn't matter, again
> >
> > ----- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -----
> > Von: ralph meyermann
> > Gesendet: 18.01.2014 11:17
> > An: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> > Betreff: Re: Versatile Vanagon opens MoHo owner's eyes
> >
> > With a little peer pressure we can open the blind eyes to the abilities
> of
> > Vanagons/Westy. All the fun but in a small package!
> >
> > Velma 82 1.9L AAZ td westy
> > On Jan 18, 2014 10:03 AM, "dhanson928@gmail.com" <dhanson928@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I took a bike-buddy for a day trip in my 84 tintop with most of a
> Westie
> > > interior yesterday. They have a 2nd home on a golf course here in the
> > > California desert, travel in a top-tier motorcoach (39' two pop-outs)
> > pull
> > > a jeep and leave a Buick SUV here when at their San Juan Island house.
> > > But Rich has no bike rack, and we wanted to drive up into the
> > mountains
> > > to Julian, Ca. to ride around a 50 mile loop, so we took my
> van....after
> > > Rich assured me that he didn't mind dog hair.
> > > Up a very twisty road to the mt. Tourist town of Julian, where we
> > parked
> > > on the mainstreet, changed, filled our waterbottles and went for the
> > ríde.
> > > Came in, rinsed-off from the sink, went out to lunch, then returned
> via
> > > the other road to our desert town, again on a steep and twisting
> highway
> > > with many 15mph corners. Drove about 80 miles, used just over 3 gals
> of
> > > gas, sat around in the Vanagon, comfortably B.S.ing for a bit...Took a
> > > short off-road excursion to a desert overlook .
> > > My buddy told me he was way surprised at how he had just spent part of
> > his
> > > day driving around the mountains and hanging out in a 30yr old VW van,
> > and
> > > he LIKED IT, a lot!
> > >
> > > Sent from my HTC smartphone on the Now Network from Sprint!
> > >
> > >
> >
>
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Casey
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