Hippies?

Don't know any that could afford the upkeep of a Vanagon.  Seems most hippie
types gravitated toward air-cooleds

Karl Wolz

----- Original Message -----
From: <JordanVw@AOL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2000 3:53 PM
Subject: vanagon thread ongoing on the quattro list.....

> exerpt from a current thread ongoing by our brothers there over on the
audi
> quattro list....
> chris
> --------------------------------------snip--------------------------------
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> Subj:    Re: audi 10v turbo in a VW van?
> Date:   10/28/00 4:16:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time
> From:   tquattroguy@yahoo.com (Todd Phenneger)
> Sender: quattro-admin@audifans.com
> To: lindgre@online.no (Per Lindgren), quattro@audifans.com
>
> I only know 3 people personally that have Vanagons.  And all
> three could be charachterized as Hippies.  Or Tree Huggers, or
> Outdoorsy types.  THey all fit, and are all partially true.  But
> does it matter.  I'm sure Shayne didn't mean anything bad by the
> term Hippie.  I'm a car Freak.  Yea, I'm a freak.  I freely
> admit it.  When I met Shayne, he looked like a Hippie Car Freak.
>  I dont know why everyone has to jump down someones throat every
> time a nationality or behavioral descriptive term comes up.
> Many Vanagon owners are hippies, many aren't, but probably more
> are than most car owners.  Thus, more listers probably are as
> well.
>   Ok,  Enough babbling.
> l8r
>   Todd  (BTW,  I wasn't saying you jumped down his throat, that
> was just a generalization term)
>
> --- Per Lindgren <lindgre@online.no> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Alexander van Gerbig wrote:
> >
> > >     I don't think that statement holds any negative
> > connotations of hippies,
> > > just stating that list has more of them.
> >
> > During my 2-year "membership" at the Vanagon list, I can say
> > that most of the
> > people didnt seem like hippies to me. They are more of the
> > Camper type people.
> >
> > PerL
> > 92 Cab 2,3
> >
>