Date: Tue, 08 Nov 94 09:03:05 CST
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From: Joel Walker <JWALKER@ua1vm.ua.edu>
Subject: Re: car survey (fwd)
On Tue, 8 Nov 94 01:21:59 CST Eric Oster said:
>Could some of the vanagon people post their responses on the list?
>I'm sure more humorous responses could be found...
ok. i'm bored and silly enough ...
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Survey about privately owned vehilces:
Please place answers on the line following the question, After the '>' symbol.
For example for question number one, ">1995"
>
1) What model year is the car: (eg: 1993)
>1988
>
2) Which of the following includes the make of your car:
>(6) Volkswagen; (7) Audi (well, SOME of the parts have Audi on 'em)
>
3) Which color best describes the color of your car:
>(5) blue, blue, la amor est blue.
>
4) What is the approximate annual (12 months) insurance cost for your car?
> $600, give or take a few accidents and speeding tickets.
>
5) How much money have you spent on the car in repairs to this day?
> $3000 repairs, $5000 acessories, $2000 books, $1000 lights,
> $4000 gasoline, $180 miscellaneous party favors.
>
6) How many trips have you made to have the car serviced and/or repaired at
a dealer or other garage? (eg: 13)
> 4 (one of which was intensely regrettable).
>
7) What was the cost of the vehicle when you first bought it? (eg: 14000)
> $17,000, plus agony, humilation, degradation.
>
8) For how many years have you owned this car? (eg: 3)
> owned? 1. paid for? 5.
>
9) What is the primary sex of this car? (m or f)
> last time i looked, i think it was a male.
>
10) What is the current age of the primary driver of this car? (eg: 26)
> i remember Truman and Korea and Eisenhower and Stalin and Churchill
> and Sputnik and Ernie Kovacs and black-and-white movies and
> drive-ins and sock hops and the bunny hop and two-lane federal
> highways and cars with no seat-belts (and seats like living room
> sofas) and radio was the only entertainment in the house (unless
> grandma got kinda drunk ... that was funny) and when people
> outnumbered the politicians ... and other stuff like that. so i
> guess i'm old, huh? :) eg: 50-something. or later-40-something.
> i forget.
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