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• Re: NVC - Fryeday - Across Paris in under 9 Minutes!!!
  Historical mailing list - Mister Tom
  Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:27:40 -0800
  ...In the full screen version of the film you can see > >pedestrians, pidgeons and other cars dodging the Ferrari. > >It took the Ferrari just...
• Re: Beer Survey
  Historical mailing list - Kelly Bauman
  Fri, 17 Jul 1998 11:14:05 -0700
  ...Don't get me wrong, I prefer the specialty beers over the pedestrian stuff, I just can't always justify their price and have...
• Re: Letting someone take your car for a test drive - read this
  Historical mailing list - Steve Schwenk
  Thu, 28 Jun 2001 09:46:58 -0700
  ...etc. > > But if the idiot kid struck another car or some > pedestrian, you'd definitely like to have his > insurance responsible, either fully or...
• [Fwd: Re: [Syncro] STOLEN syncro 16'' in Duisburg / Germany ALERT !]
  Historical mailing list - Steve Schwenk
  Tue, 23 Jan 2001 12:54:42 -0800
  ...stole the sulfur-yellow VW syncro 16" belonging to Andreas > Lidl. Pedestrians observed the thief and describe him as looking like he > comes from...
• Re: Backfiring
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 31 Aug 94 19:12:01 EDT
  ...problems, or should I just relax and > enjoy scaring the occasional pedestrian?? > > BTW, I've about given up flashing/waving at other VW's...
• Portland OR Vanagon Engine Swap Shop
  Historical mailing list - C B
  Mon, 17 Aug 2015 21:01:03 -0700
  What's the list wisdom on best Portland OR shop for the following engine swap? Due to a pedestrian-vehicle accident, I can't...
• Re: VW Coolant
  Historical mailing list - Zeitgeist
  Mon, 13 Jan 2014 17:25:30 -0800
  ...Savvy cheapskates like me have figured out that Valvoline Zerex G-05 is the same platinum stuff, but at the pedestrian price point of...
• Re: How many Vanagons
  Historical mailing list - Donald Baxter / Iowa City, Iowa
  Sat, 14 Feb 2004 18:16:54 -0600
  ...Baxter http://www.mindspring.com/~onanov donald.baxter@mchsi.com donald-baxter@uiowa.edu "While pedestrians should be ensured safety along our roads, the...
• Re: Gas Mileage
  Historical mailing list - Michael Jurik
  Wed, 28 Oct 1998 20:17:13 EST
  ...traffic by driving on the sidewalk, honking, no less, at the pedestrians...). When the wind is a tail wind and I keep it under...
• 82 Vanagon, banshee front pads!
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 20 May 1996 03:18:56 -0600
  ...entire neighbourhood! On the plus side, when I stop for a pedestrian, he fairly hustles to the other side, not being entirely certain that...
• Re: NY State Motor Smoker Law [2]
  Historical mailing list - Larry L. Bissell
  Sat, 4 Sep 1999 14:16:21 -0700
  I posted last week about almost being injured as a pedestrian by drivers who compromised safety by driving and tlking on their cell phones...
• Re: looking for a 1980s Vanagon to rent in the Bronx
  Historical mailing list - kenneth wilford (Van-Again)
  Tue, 10 Dec 2013 09:12:43 -0500
  ...I�m looking for a 1980s Vanagon to use in a > pedestrian accident reenactment in the Bronx across from Yankee Stadium. > We would be...
• Re: Crunch, I hit a deer
  Historical mailing list - Simon Reinhardt
  Wed, 4 Dec 2002 00:52:59 -0700
  ...tempted to actually shove the afore-mentioned dorkmobiles around! It makes pedestrians walk wide around the van, too... There's a mediocre picture here...
• [Fwd: [T2] FW: [busalert] 87 Westfalia Recovered!]
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Wed, 5 Mar 2003 07:16:13 -0800
  ...when they were pulled over for failure to stop for a pedestrian. Sadly, they were gang members, and the exterior and interior of our...
• RE: 911 in 69 westy
  Historical mailing list - William R. Kennedy, NJIT CIAT, 201-596-5648
  Wed, 01 May 1996 09:59:13 EST
  ...At a Porsche swap meet a few weeks ago, I backed out of a parking space past a pedestrian who then flagged me down...
• Gender and names (was Fryeday on Sunday) from the digester..
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Sun, 10 Jun 2007 23:24:38 -0700
  ...Beware of the dog"...and I try to park away from pedestrian traffic... I am sure some name will occur to me that'll...
• Re: Vanagon vs Volvo Crash Photos
  Historical mailing list - Ari Ollikainen
  Fri, 20 Nov 1998 11:32:06 -0800
  ...272 4,821 4,462 4,856 5,119 4,903 Pedestrians Pedestrian Fatalities 6,482 5,801 5,549 5,649 5,489...
• Re: How safe is it?
  Historical mailing list - Mark Dorm
  Wed, 19 Jul 2000 01:18:33 PDT
  ...a funny >comedy, if you don't mind a lot of pedestrians getting killed and a really >really really stupid 'plot'. and some really...
• Re: Mr. Buddy propane heaters on sale @ Home Depot
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Mon, 6 Feb 2006 22:15:59 -0600
  ...The increase in traffic - both vehicular and pedestrian - increased. I would run around in my Jac-shirt and never put on my coat. BUT...
• Re: VW Radio Into Vanagon / Only Newer, Not Better
  Historical mailing list - George Goff
  Mon, 26 Jan 2004 09:00:14 EST
  ...s, BMW airheads) that I gave little thought to something as pedestrian as a radio. Recently, I was confronted with trying to find an...
• Re: Friday Sneaky plan for advanced van drive revealed
  Historical mailing list - Austin
  Sat, 16 Jan 1999 00:27:55 -0800
  ...But now I've >learned that Robert Alexander has leap frogged well ahead of >these pedestrian efforts. An early indication was revealed >when he...
• Re: fuel pump +Mom problem
  Historical mailing list - George Goff
  Thu, 10 Nov 2005 07:29:21 EST
  ...One was in a wheel chair and they were at a location where more than one pedestrian fatality had occurred. I stopped to give...
• Fwd: [pavanagon] Beach Blanket Bingo Baby!!
  Historical mailing list - Sudhir Desai
  Tue, 13 Jun 2000 19:43:02 -0700
  ...If anyone is > interested in doing the > wild pony pedestrian slalom to a parkinglot for some > conversation on > the beach and a late night...
• kinda car related
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 9 May 1995 12:38:28 -0700
  ...Do you yield when a blind pedestrian is crossing the road? A: What for? He can't see my license plate. Q: Who has...
• Re: Friday-You must be mad -- or not.
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Fri, 14 Oct 2005 13:25:38 -0500
  ...boy! we'd separate the adventurers from the pedestrians pretty quick. I darn sure wouldn't get on one if there was any potential...
• Re: Vanagon vs Volvo Crash Photos
  Historical mailing list - David-M
  Fri, 20 Nov 1998 14:45:15 -0500
  ...272 4,821 4,462 4,856 5,119 4,903 > Pedestrians > Pedestrian Fatalities 6,482 5,801 5,549 5,649 5,489...
• Re: � � � Re: inspection worrie s redux
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Mon, 26 Aug 2002 01:51:35 EDT
  ...to warn pedestrians). Unfortunately in this day and age where so many folks are listening to radios, walkmans, or talking on cell phones, horns...
• Re: Was!! now that it's Friday! Now: Rant!! Long!
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Fri, 27 Feb 2004 12:44:15 -0600
  > > My complaint, among many, is that there is absolutely NO planning for > any pedestrian traffic anywhere. The streets and roads are constructed > with no...
• Here is a source of biodiesel fuel
  Historical mailing list - roger sisler
  Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:21:27 -0700
  ...fill there mercedies diesel fuel tank..At the trafic light, the pedestrian will say " smells likey yu got fries with that?"Just not enough...
• good Samaritans...
  Historical mailing list - dave bowers
  Fri, 13 Dec 2002 10:51:23 -0800
  ...At least once a day, I have a driver, or pedestrian call to me and tell me "Hey, do you know you have a...
• Re: Driving & camping in Mexico (No Vanagon Content)
  Historical mailing list - Chuck & Lillian
  Sat, 2 Sep 2000 12:06:36 -0700
  ...lines or other road markings, occasional poorly- or unmarked road repairs, pedestrians and (I almost forgot) bicyclists who have no lights, and rattletrap clunkers...
• Re: Still Friday!
  Historical mailing list - Joy Hecht
  Fri, 27 Feb 2004 23:27:50 -0500
  ...When the cyclists and pedestrians in the community get together and fight and lobby and push and write letters and go to meetings and...
• Friday Sneaky plan for advanced van drive revealed
  Historical mailing list - Blue Eyes
  Thu, 14 Jan 1999 18:45:18 -0600
  ...But now I've learned that Robert Alexander has leap frogged well ahead of these pedestrian efforts. An early indication was revealed when he...
• Re: Reply to Ben: Re: Front brake noise of 91 Westy
  Historical mailing list - dave bowers
  Sun, 8 Sep 2002 09:53:11 -0700
  ...I was kind of amused with the new set of sounds and the new looks I get when I slow for pedestrians. I've...
• Re: In defense of Subaru...
  Historical mailing list - Michael A. White
  Thu, 4 Jan 1996 10:07:50 MST
  ...It would often backfire when shifting between first and second, > and send pedestrians running for cover. On cold, wet days, the throttle > linkage would...
• Re: Gender and names (was Fryeday on Sunday) from the digester..
  Historical mailing list - Allen Hill
  Mon, 11 Jun 2007 08:20:37 -0500
  ...Beware of the dog"...and I try to park away from pedestrian traffic... I am sure some name will occur to me that'll...
• Re: [Fwd: [T2] FW: [busalert] 87 Westfalia Recovered!]
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 5 Mar 2003 13:01:13 EST
  ...when they were pulled over for failure to stop for a > pedestrian. Sadly, they were gang members, and the exterior and interior > of our...
• Re: Vanagon vs Volvo Crash Photos
  Historical mailing list - Michael Harrnacker
  Wed, 25 Nov 1998 20:36:47 -0700
  ...272 4,821 4,462 4,856 5,119 4,903 >> Pedestrians >> Pedestrian Fatalities 6,482 5,801 5,549 5,649 5,489...
• Re: Portland OR Vanagon Engine Swap Shop
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Tue, 18 Aug 2015 08:40:32 -0700
  ...Portland OR shop for the following engine swap? Due to a pedestrian-vehicle accident, I can't do this myself. I'm happy to...
• Re: Diesel powered vanagons - Driving Slow
  Historical mailing list - Donald Baxter
  Sat, 24 Sep 2005 08:49:53 -0500
  ...the behaviour bleeds out to our urban surface streets and affects pedestrians, cyclists and damages neighborhoods. And yet, we want what we want and...
• Re: Why VW's + T&A?
  Historical mailing list - Maher, Steve (SD-MS)
  Tue, 07 Nov 1995 16:04:00 -0800 (PST)
  ...gi.com '71 VW Transporter w/big windshield & great view of pedestrians '80 V6anagon, not delevered yet, but w/even bigger windshield, hot damn
• Friday...Jerk at the Border Crossing..
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:00:54 -0800
  ...cross the border that has only 3 agents checking passports for pedestrians and literally thousands and thousands crossing daily to get medical services......it...
• Re: What Is In A Name?/NOT MUCH!
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Sat, 8 Feb 2003 18:57:06 +1300
  ...Why do people try to add some sort of cachet to >something as inanimately pedestrian as a car by giving it a name? > >Wait...
• Speaking of Cooler thermostat questions....(long)
  Historical mailing list - robot .
  Wed, 20 Sep 2000 18:12:57 PDT
  ...tim o'brien (pedestrian for the night while the jbweld stuff cures) _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www...
• Re: Valves, Advice
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 21 Oct 94 16:56:08 EDT
  ...They can be the cleanest but most unsafe cars on the road...example - car drives through intersection kills two pedestrians. Driver of vehicle had...
• Re: crashing....
  Historical mailing list - Ian Astbury
  Mon, 22 Oct 2001 10:45:45 +1000
  ...The state restricts the design, to try and minimise negative affects, particularly on pedestrians. Things become complicated in vehicles with airbags, requiring the bar...
• RE: Volkswagen 'quality' /L
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Thu, 09 Nov 95 18:26:15 CST
  ...other people are more mass-transit oriented, or even pedestrian ... can you imagine how different your life would be if you lived within walking...
• What happened with the DRL�s?(longish)
  Historical mailing list - Calle Fallberg
  Wed, 30 Dec 1998 19:30:27 +0100
  ...It still amuses me as much to recall all the anti- sides arguments, you wouldn�t see pedestrians or bicykle riders so there would...
• Re: roadside memorials/ No vanagon content
  Historical mailing list - Jorge Osorio
  Thu, 22 Jul 2004 16:39:10 -0400
  ...m from, a creative mayor used a similar strategy to encourage pedestrians to use overpass bridges. For every person who died as a result...
• Re: Here is a source of biodiesel fuel
  Historical mailing list - Hans Achter
  Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:47:36 -0400
  ...fill there mercedies diesel fuel tank..At the trafic light, the > pedestrian will say " smells likey yu got fries with that?"Just not enough...
• Re: Here is a source of biodiesel fuel
  Historical mailing list - Daryl Christensen
  Wed, 26 Oct 2005 09:12:22 -0700
  ...fill there mercedies diesel fuel tank..At the trafic light, the > pedestrian will say " smells likey yu got fries with that?"Just not enough...
• Vanagon Radiators - A cautionary note.
  Historical mailing list - Sean O'Neil
  Thu, 19 Aug 1999 12:33:20 -0300
  ...A kind pedestrian pointed out that "green stuff" was shooting out of the grill. Not even hesitating I parked so as to take up...
• Re: Portland OR Vanagon Engine Swap Shop
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Schwaia
  Tue, 18 Aug 2015 09:50:07 -0700
  ...Portland OR shop for the following engine swap? Due to a pedestrian-vehicle accident, I can't do this myself. I'm happy to...
• Slight over run popping from exhaust..84 (inline VW with Digifant )
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Mon, 3 Aug 2009 16:30:05 -0700
  ...I sometimes lately see pedestrians lately turning as I go past, smiling at the old Hippy in the 'poopy-colored poopy-sounding' Bus.. I...
• Re: vanagon speed
  Historical mailing list - Marc Sayer
  Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:07:44 -0800
  ...after that, well we generally were safe from being passed by pedestrians and bicyclists, but not always. Even when I replaced the 40 hp...
• Re: Here is a source of biodiesel fuel
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Wed, 26 Oct 2005 21:55:02 -0500
  ...fill there mercedies diesel fuel tank..At the trafic light, the pedestrian will say " smells likey yu got fries with that?"Just not enough...
• Re: camping amidst bears, safety question
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Fri, 11 Feb 2011 18:58:15 -0800
  ...It was a little disturbing on our walks, as we passed through various pedestrian gates with rubber handles and at times we could not...
• Re: A/C resuscitation - where to start?
  Historical mailing list - Michael Elliott
  Wed, 27 Jun 2007 08:21:12 -0700
  ...IR bounce off the film and stick to some poor schmuck pedestrian standing near the car thinking damn hot day summer in the city...
• replaced a few cooling system hoses
  Historical mailing list - Edward Maglott
  Sun, 25 Mar 2007 14:20:06 -0400
  I covered the basics in this blog post for pedestrians interested in Vanagons http://gismemories.blogspot.com/2007/03/wassercooling.html For us Vanagon...
• Radiator cooling fan - stuck ON!
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Martin
  Tue, 1 Jun 2010 10:22:48 -0700
  ...rain, a 1/2 inch of water on the roadway, cowering pedestrians on the sidewalk getting splashed by passing cars, rain. Ark building rain...