

| Subject: | Re: Warning!!! Check Your Speedometer |
| From: | Stan Wilder |
| Date: | Sat, 11 May 2002 08:10:37 -0500 |
buy it whenever I sell it .............. ------------------------- Sell it now before you get the rest of the surprises coming at you. Stan Wilder 83 Air Cooled Westfalia On Sat, 11 May 2002 08:57:50 EDT Ronald Gregory Smithers <Rgsmithers@AOL.COM> writes: > What a busy, busy day I had yesterday and I learned something very > important. > Everyone, check your speedometers!!!! They may be showing the > speed in > kilometers per hour and that is ***much*** different from miles per > hour! > > My dear friend, Thor, and I tried to take the Vanagon to be detail > cleaned > and polished yesterday. After driving on the four lane highway for a > few > miles, Thor, who was following me, started to flash the headlights > like an > insane man. Not knowing what was wrong and more than a > ***little*** > panicked, it was all I could do to pull over without wrecking. I > jumped out > expecting something to be drastically wrong only to be told by Thor, > in a > rather snippy tone, that I was driving too slowly. Although I kept > going > faster and faster, this same scene was acted out by us twice more in > ten > miles. By the third time we stopped, Thor was having a > ***hissyfit****!!! > As I thought I had been driving at an absolutely terrifying 85 miles > per > hour, we decided that my speedometer must be broken. > > Instead of the car detail shop, we dropped the Vanagon at the > Volkswagen > dealership. My spirits were lifted when we returned to pick up the > Vanagon > because there is nothing wrong with the speedometer mechanism. :) > It is only > that the speedometer shows the speed as kilometers per hour which is > slower > than miles per hour. Look on the face of your speedometer; if it > says > "km/h", drive faster. I know this is hard to believe, but it will > show 100 > (!!!!) when you are going sixty miles per hour. Paco, the > mechanic, > explained it all to me. Also, he was very excited about my van and > he would > like to buy it whenever I sell it. You meet the ***nicest*** people > when you > are driving a Vanagon! > > Pinky > ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.
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