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Date:         Fri, 30 Oct 1998 20:10:57 -0800
Reply-To:     Ari Ollikainen <Ari@OLTECO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Ari Ollikainen <Ari@OLTECO.COM>
Subject:      Re: POSSUM/COON/SKUNK/SQUIRREL SKIN REUPHOLSTERY KITS!/F!
Comments: To: "Robert A. Alexander" <satcong@vol.com>
Comments: cc: vanagon@VANAGON.COM
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At 10:41 PM 10/30/98, Robert A. Alexander wrote: >Ari - Jeez, "70 mph" in a '62??? Am I safe in assuming this was a bug, >NOT a Van??? I never got more than 60mph out of my '62 Kombi back in >'75, except downhill/following a tractor-trailer! Even then I felt like >my life was in someone else's hands. My '60 bug, in '66 would maintain >65-70mph on South Florida roads and once buried the speedo whilst 3' >behind the bumper of a tractor-trailer combo!!! > It was a "bug", Type 1, model 113, to be precise. The one I picked up in Germany in 1961.

>Rabbits? Nah, they're suicidal, like cats, deer and anti-American >protestors!. Nighttime on the road must mean something celestial to >these particular critters. They tend to just throw themselves in front >of our vehicles during darkness!

Although my encounter with the WestTexas jackrabbits was in daylight, I later had the opportunity to turn several of them into roadkill (er...runway-kill...sort of flat-jacks :-)) during a night landing on a WestTexas airstrip...Dropped a C-130 right on top of 'em! > >Obviously, you have NO idea how 150# chihuahuas WILL influence the >course of human events! > You've got me there...although Rusty, the wonder-Pom, (all 9lbs of him, including a full coat) can seem pretty ferocious when someone approaches his beloved Vanagon. He's a furry dervish until one of "his" people asks him to be quiet.

OLTECO Ari Ollikainen P.O. BOX 3688 Networking Technology and Architecture Stanford, CA Ari@OLTECO.com 94309-3688 415.517.3519


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