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Date:         Fri, 21 Feb 2014 23:34:43 -0500
Reply-To:     KIM BRENNAN <kimbrennan@MAC.COM>
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From:         KIM BRENNAN <kimbrennan@MAC.COM>
Subject:      Re: I am not alone
Comments: To: Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@GMAIL.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <02e201cf2f7b$2a2c4160$7e84c420$@gmail.com>
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late model passenger vanagons have great AC. when used with R12 they'd freeze you. I drove across the country on I 10 one summer. Never had a problem with AC except for the kink in the drip line.

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> On Feb 21, 2014, at 10:07 PM, Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > > Could it have something to do with the fact that Vanagons have no or minimal > air conditioning? > > Stuart > > -----Original Message----- > From: JRodgers [mailto:jrodgers113@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 11:21 AM > To: Stuart MacMillan; vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > Subject: Re: I am not alone > > One of the biggest Medical Universities Medical Research Centers in the > South is located in Birmingham. University of Alabama - Birmingham. The U of > A main campus is at Tuscaloosa, but the UAB center has grown to the point > that academically it outstrips the original campus. It offers full > undergraduate and graduate programs, as well as medical degrees. > yet with all that - you don't see any Vanagons or buses there. It is > strange. > > John > >> On 2/21/2014 11:25 AM, Stuart MacMillan wrote: >> University towns have always been VW centers, especially for campers. The >> Seattle area has three VW dealers, one four blocks from the University of

>> Washington campus. They all sold a lot of campers over the years, which is >> why we still have so many around. >> >> >> >> At least that seems to be true in the west, and Huntsville too apparently. >> Hmm, does that mean smart people own Vanagons? >> >> >> >> Stuart >> >> >> >> From: Jim Felder [mailto:jim.felder@gmail.com] >> Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 9:09 AM >> To: Stuart MacMillan; Vanagon mailing list >> Subject: Re: I am not alone >> >> >> >> I'm in Huntsville (Madison, technically). No shortage of parts here, > thanks >> to me! LOL >> >> >> >> Plus we have a really good shop here and another in a nearby town. I > looked >> at a Carat automatic yesterday at my local shop. It was parked out front >> with a Birmingham tag. The shop owner said that they owner has the car > towed >> to Huntsville for any kind of service more complicated than an oil change. >> >> >> >> About a week ago a friend with a westy stopped by for a part. There were > my >> two in their respective driveways, and this one on the street. My > neighbor, >> who just bought a red passat TDI wagon, stopped and rolled the window down >> and said "You better keep them apart! They're starting to multiply!!!" >> >> >> >> Jim >> >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@gmail.com>

>> wrote: >> >> I've heard that Huntsville has a pretty good quantity of Vanagon owners. >> Aerospace folks seem to like them. Drive up for a weekend to get your fix! >> >> Stuart >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of >> JRodgers >> Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2014 10:10 PM >> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM >> Subject: I am not alone >> >> For the longest kind of time I have not seen any Vanagons around >> Birmingham, AL but my own. Never see any mention of Birmingham on the >> Vanagon List so have wondered if I am all alone in the big city. >> >> Well, today, just after parking my van and nearing the steps into the >> house, I hear this familiar engine sound, and almost simultaneously hear >> the unmistakable sound of a Vanagon horn down by the street. I turn and >> look toward the street in time to see TWO Tintop Vanagons with cargo >> carriers on top - one behind the other, one blue, one green, chugging up >> my hill. They waved, blew the horn again, but didn't stop. Wish they had.

>> >> But it's nice to know I'm not alone in the big city. >> >> John >> . >>


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