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Date:         Sat, 24 Oct 1998 19:46:26 -0500
Reply-To:     Joel Walker <jwalker@TUSC.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Joel Walker <jwalker@TUSC.NET>
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Subject:      Re: locations please
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again!?? :) ok, i'm Unca Joel Walker, often mistaken for Kris Kringle, that fatass fellow in the red suit, running around Everytown near Christmas each year. i live down south, where the cotton blooms and blows, and the honeysuckle smells so sweet in summer that you just want to jump up and dance ... probably cause them fireants are crawling up your pants leg!!!! the region is South, the state is Alabama, the town is Tuscaloosa ... or as i like to refer to it: Tookalooka, Amabala, home of the largest mental institution in the state, and the largest university in the state. you figure which is which. :)

why "Unca Joel"?? oh,i don't know. my nieces and nephews started calling me that years and years ago, and i liked it better than their other nickname: Stinky. :) then they shortened it to just UJ (pronounced as one word: Udge). i prefer Unca Joel.

i have had a few buses: started out with a brand new 1971 blue/white bus, right after i got out of the army. i'd seen some Aussies riding around in a 69 bus and actually got to liking it (i'd planned on getting a split-window in 68, but vw changed the looks!!). so i got the 71. loved it. years later, got a used 73 ... my first introduction to Dreaded Previous Owners. traded it for a new 1980 Vanagon ... and have been stuck on Vanagons ever since. :) got an 86 with airconditioning ... my first a/c car ... in 86, then my present 88 bus (Gus-Gus the Bus-Bus) a while later. last year, i got a 1987 camper (Herman the German Hermit Crab). somewhere in all those years were a 1968 Double-cab pickup (now owned by Dave Easterwood, he-of-too-many-buses), and a 1991 automatic GL model with all the power stuff (still wish i had that one). lots of other cars of other brands ... Porsche, Mercedes, Honda. lots of beetles, and a squareback. first beetle i ever drove had the semiphore turn-signals. and no gas gauge. and a manual choke. that was a loooong time ago (it was almost new).

anyway, that's who i am/was/will be ... for all you new folks on the list. :)

Unca Joel


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