Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 14:51:34 -0700
Reply-To: eve Appleton <appleton_eve@YAHOO.COM>
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From: eve Appleton <appleton_eve@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: VW camper van article
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By now i'm sure all has been said, as i join this thread w/o reading everyone's input (thou i will with time). None the less, my first thot is, "will waving at each other become a thing of the past?"
We have so much to be grateful for by way of the " hippy" generation. Conservationist ideals like clean food, animal migration paths, right to literacy n vote for all, anti-poverty, anti-violence... the basic concepts of common decency which r born of a generation who dared to question authority and consider the preciousness of all life; the right for everyone's children and elders alike to live a healthy n wholesome future. And yet the term "hippy" is still associated today with a lesser sort of mentalitity. I can't count the number of times i've been referred to as a hippy with derogatory intent. It makes my skin crawl. With this fad of hybridization, will the truth of the hippy generation b as lost as our common knowledge of the rotary phone?
The lure of modern convenience is there for all of us who've preserved these vehicles with bloody knuckles, sweat and curse words. Even those who've gone syncro, paving the way for this modern vw camper. And it's all good. We evolve. It's nature. Still, the loss of understanding what these cars represent is at risk of extinction, as yet another manufactuerer seeks to cash in. We r facing the wannabe nation phenomena. And that's something i hope be considered as we "join society".
How many more dump sites will mound this earth with this new development? Or r we just biding time in entertaining ways til the earth swallows us up n starts over? Just wonderin.
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From:"Dave Mcneely" <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Date:Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 2:01 PM
Subject:Re: VW camper van article
Five stars, Eric: *****
---- Eric Caron <ecaron1@COMCAST.NET> wrote:
> I Resemble that description.
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> Part of my joy in having a Vanagon is it’s connection to the hippie past. Pretty sure Bay windows were around a year or two before Woodstock in 69. Also well into the time of Vietnam and many related piece protests.
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> I’ve had many a aging hippie stay at my place and I’m pretty sure they didn’t smell or leave a mess behind.
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> The last ones left me unexpected gifts and positive energy that still lingers on.
> I have long hair on the inside and love getting my tie off at the end of the day and working on my hippie van in a tie dye shirt.
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> I can’t help but think that some of the positive hippy energy is why so often folks stop and offer assistance or just a story when I’m out and about in my van. so many times folks have helped get my van going when I could not. and so often offered a needed part, a place to stay, and all kinds of road side assistance. I always thought that was because of the impression of f VW van owners as warm, kind, trust worthy, and part of a family.
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> But enough of that I need to go find some elicit activities to undertake.
> Eric Caron
> 85 GL Auto Westfalia
> Dirty stinky, criminal hippy van in Southern VT
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>
> > On Sep 18, 2015, at 12:19 PM, Stacy Schneider <vwcrewman@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> > I am unsure why people have this tolerance or love for Hippies. They don't shower often , stand around on street corners smoking Pot and doing other type illicit activities and beg money.
> > I grew up in a coastal city where they would sleep in their converted school buses with wood stoves and some times build tree houses and leave crap behind when they left.
> > People decorate bay windows as hippy vans , the mass of the movement was dead by the time Bay Windows were introduced, and at that we're not that cheap when new.
> > Most real hippies have joined society or moved to Oregon or New Hampshire and have created today's wave of hippies who now stand around smoking Clove Cigarettes and play Hackey Sack.
> > So next time you see one if those Hippy vans think about how long it took to scrub the smell and other stuff out of it and re weld the fender wells back in.
> > Oh I love Friday's , oh yeah it's time to go back to work .
> >
> > Stacy
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> >> On Sep 18, 2015, at 8:21 AM, Steven Johnson <sjohnso2000@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> >> I'm sure it will be out of the price range of most current "hippies".....
> >>
> >> Steven
> >> 91 Westy
> >>
> >>> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 7:50 AM, Dean S <predsmaniac@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >>>
> >>> http://www.wakingtimes.com/2015/09/17/everyones-favorite-volkswagen-camper-van-to-be-re-released-as-an-electric/
> >>>
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David McNeely
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