Date:         Thu, 11 Jul 1996 07:56:52 -0400 (EDT)
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Tom Guptill <tom@eoj.mv.com>
Subject:      Re: A Freindly Wave


I tend to agree...the Vanagon owners who are most likely to wave are the
ones driving either beat up old Vanagons or those speedy old diesels.  (I
*will* own one.) As for those Eurovan drivers, they're so confused by
their engines being at the wrong end that they don't have time to wave. :)

- Tom



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Tom Guptill          tgpt_ltd@cc.rochester.edu (expires soon)
                     tom@eoj.mv.com
On Wed, 10 Jul 1996, Robert Crawford wrote:

> At 10:47 PM 7/10/96 -0500, Tom Guptill wrote:
> >interested in what my air-cooled partners in crime have to say.  Not that
> >all of you Vanagon owners won't get a friendly wave (and roadside assistance
> 
> 
>         To change the subject a bit, Why don't Vanagon drivers wave?
> Whenever I take the '72 camper on a trip, air cooled people wave (and I wave
> too).  When I drive my '82 no one seems to wave, why?  I've tried waveing as
> I go down I-5, people look at me like im a kook or something (please, don't
> say the obvious).
> 
>         Well, if you see a beat up '82 w/ a lot of antennas in the Siskiyou
> Mts. Wave
> 
>         Oh, a couple of reasons air cooled drivers wave 1.  Its anothee one,
> and it's running too.  2.  Shared pains and sorrows.
>         I have noticed Vanagon drivers will wave in the middle of nowhere
> and on dirt roads.
>