Dear Brent,

Of course, everyone on this list hates you for your good fortune! ;)

Cheers,

MJS

At 05:45 PM 2/7/00 -0800, BRENT CHRISTENSEN wrote:

>Gaak!  Why are they selling their Vanagon to move to Santa Barbara???  Don't

>they know that Santa Barbara is where all well-maintained Vanagons would

>want to come live the rest of their lives?  This is literally a Vanagon

>Mecca!  Heck, its a deluxe retirement community for pampered VW vans of any

>sort!

>

>Why just this weekend I was washing our Syncro when my wife came out and

>asked why I had a big dumb grin on my face.  I said "Look over there..."

>And across the corner from my house were the '90 7-pax GL and the '91 Westy

>that normally live there, along with the white '88 that belongs to their

>friend.  Sitting at the stop sign waiting to pull out from next to the house

>was a '89 Syncro like mine, and coming the other direction was a '79 Westy

>with a couple of longboards on top.  5 Vanagons and a Type II Westy, all

>within 25 yards of each other, and it was just a regular Sunday afternoon in

>my neighborhood!

>

>Tell them to e-mail me and I'll tell them all the reasons NOT to sell the

>Vanagon before they move here!..

>

>Brent Christensen

>'89 GL Syncro Westy

>Santa Barbara, CA

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Michael J. Sullivan

</bold><italic>IPS "SWATteam" Architect

Open Market, Inc.

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