Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 13:53:23 EST
Reply-To: vmontgo32@JUNO.COM
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Victor Montgomery <vmontgo32@JUNO.COM>
Subject: Re: Keeping List to Vanagon content!
I am still wondering how this list has survived without ERIC (ie:THOUGHT
POLICE)
for this period of time? It is people like him, who stir all this stuff
up and keep it
going.
Victor...
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 12:26:35 -0500 EMZ <vw4x4@FYI.NET> writes:
> Ok,
> Here is a foul proof idea to keep the list, to Vanagons.
>Everyone must join in. If everyone that reads a posting that did
>not have any Vanagon content, would reply to the sender, (and I mean
>everyone) this would probably fill there mail box up. After the mail
>box gets filled, the mail bounces until you emtpy it. If the mail
>form the list gets bounced back to the list server ,several times the
>list
>automaticlly kicks you off. All we have to do, is hit reply, and
>send,
>and that's what I'm going to do.
>
> Eric 86-VW4x4
> vw4x4@fyi.net 72-240z
> Pittsburgh, PA USA 1936-Chrysler
>
>
>On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, David Marshall wrote:
>
>> At 13:44 19/01/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>> >In lieu of the regularly scheduled spam war, I thought I'd start a
>new
>> >thread:
>> >
>> >What is the most interesting "thing" (that could mean a story, too)
>that
>> >you found in/about your van after buying it from a PO?
>>
>> Um... the WHOLE damn Double Cab!
>>
>> Front to rear mods when I bought it.
>>
>> - Ford Areostar bumper -> still there
>> - Extended nose with lights 3" lower -> why, why, why, why...
>> - Smurf blue dash, steering wheel, gear shift, basically every piece
>of
>> plastic in the cab. -> all black now (whew)
>> - Ford Areostar bucket seats -> unfortunatly still there (anyone
>have a
>> spare set of Recaros)
>> - Ford Areostar rear seat -> replace with a VW original seat
>> - Fridge between the seats -> gone (never worked in the first place)
>> - Dual Sunroofs -> drip drip (now fixed)
>> - Rear side windows were chopped and lowered 6"
>> - Mini blinds in the rear windows -> gone!
>> - Plastic trim around the body -> gone!
>> - Aluminum canopy -> replace with VW original canvas canopy
>> - Carpet in the truck bed -> was used for sleeping
>> - Natural Gas Converion -> 1/3 the HP / 1/2 the economy (gone!)
>> - Ford Areostar rear bumper -> gone, now there is a beefy metal tube
>bumper.
>> - No Syncro badge -> shame!
>> - 225/50 16" tires -> low rider Syncro!
>>
>> If Syncro Double Cabs with factory 16" wheels wern't so rare (and so
>cheap)
>> it would have stayed on the lot!
>>
>> -- David Marshall - Vanagon List Admin - Quesnel, BC, Canada --
>> -- 78 VW Rabbit, 80 VW Caddy, 87 Audi 5KSQ, 85 VW Cabriolet --
>> -- 88 2.0L VW Syncro Double Cab, WANTED: VW / Bombardier Iltis --
>> -- David's Volkswagen Home Page http://www.volkswagen.org --
>> -- Fast Forward Autobahn Sport Tuning http://www.fastforward.ca --
>> -- david@volkswagen.org (pmail) or vanagon@volkswagen.org (list) --
>>
>
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