Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2021 19:50:32 -0600
Reply-To: Jeff Palmer <w.jeff.palmer@ICLOUD.COM>
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From: Jeff Palmer <w.jeff.palmer@ICLOUD.COM>
Subject: Re: Wallaced
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Yeah I appeared to be dropping the gloves but really I was just trying to stimulate a little holiday discussion :) It’s possible that having just turned 50 I am one of the ‘old timers’ but I appreciate hearing from you Really Old Timers!!!
My first post was in 1999. Who else remembers where they were when the internet was invented.
Jeff
> On Dec 26, 2021, at 7:43 PM, John A <xstreamcanadian@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> Ha I was thinking when I read who can top that... most of us over 50 can. Lol. My first was in 87 a 72 bus. Had one kind of vw or a few at a time ever since
>
> Happy holiday
>
>
>
> Sent from my Bell Samsung device over Canada's largest network.
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> -------- Original message --------
> From: Rob <vwrobb@GMAIL.COM>
> Date: 2021-12-26 9:17 a.m. (GMT-08:00)
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Wallaced
>
> I bought my first '59 (a tintop) in 1972, picked up a copy of John
> Muir's "How to keep your volkswagen alive and running for the complete
> idiot" at the same time. That was the start... I learned to turn
> wrenches with that book and my bus ... had some type of VW (usually a
> bus) from then on.
> I didn't find the list until 94 or 95...
>
> I do remember being Wallaced that first time!
>
> I didn't get my first westy (an 84) until 2007 or so. Sold it in 2013
> (it was Subie powered by then). Didn't have a bus again until last
> year (a maroon '90 tintop with a subaru 2.2), bought it off a small
> used car dealers lot in Olympia where it had been sitting for awhile.
> I hadn't bought a VW bus off a lot since 1990 when I bought the 86
> Syncro from the dealer at Ala Moana Volkswagen in Honolulu (we were
> moving to Chicago and the '79 I had was missing it's heater boxes).
>
> This morning I woke up to 2" of snow and it's still falling here
> (Tahuya) at almost sea level on Hood Canal in Washington state.
>
> Merry Christmas everyone!
>
> Rob
> vwrobb@gmail.com
>
> On Sat, Dec 25, 2021 at 6:55 PM Jeff Palmer <w.jeff.palmer@icloud.com> wrote:
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>> 28 years of Westfalia ownership this year! Who is out there that can top that :)
>> Jeff
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
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