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Subject:Re: Vanagon as Daily Driver
From:1980 VW Westfalia \"Pokey\"
Date:Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:45:12 -0400

Name it Smokey!

Thanks,
Chris Gronski
Toronto, Ontario,
'80 Westy "Pokey"
'87 Chevrolet Sprint 5-Door
'91 Pontiac Firefly Convertible

----- Original Message -----
From: "Karl Wolz" <wolzphoto@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: Vanagon as Daily Driver

> Name it Dieter!
>
> Karl Wolz
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Donna Stewart" <DStewart@CHRM.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 8:44 AM
> Subject: Vanagon as Daily Driver
>
>
> My commute is 60 miles each way - 120 miles per day.  About once or twice
a
> week I drive my 87 Vanagon to work; I wish I could drive it every day but
> fuel prices and 20mpg make this prohibitive.  I am fixing up our 82
Vanagon
> Diesel for every day commuting this winter.  Right now it's getting the
> o-rings in the injector pump replaced, and getting a new heater cable.
Also
> we're hooking up the fog lights and my family thinks I ought to put a CD
> player in it.  I love driving the Vanagons in commute traffic because I
can
> see; in my small car I feel overwhelmed by the big trucks and big SUVs.  I
> figure I might have a better chance of survival in my vans.  BTW, my
Diesel
> is from Pennsylvania by way of Maine; made it all the way to California
with
> its PO.
>
> Donna, two Vanagons  (my Diesel needs a name!)
>