

| Subject: | Re: Vanagon Configuration Puzzler |
| From: | Aristotle Sagan |
| Date: | Wed, 6 Nov 2002 15:57:36 -0800 |
You need to cut and paste and don't forget the '?' after cgi. It is Captain Ping and the subbus. And he does have a Tiico conversion in it. tim in san jose >From: Tanja Barnes <dabomb@TANJABARNES.COM> >Reply-To: dabomb@TANJABARNES.COM >To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM >Subject: Re: Vanagon Configuration Puzzler >Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 15:39:08 -0800 > > > Hi again, > > > > Please read all the way through! > > > > Can anyone tell me what years this Vanagon was produced? I wanted to > > try to get one of these to enlarge my vanagon fleet. I don't think they > > were imported to the US. Perhaps it is a spinoff of the Cold War? What > > is the range and top speed ? My guess at top speed would be about 100 > > mph or 87 knots. It looks very areodynamic. > > > > Here is link to the picture of the Vanagon: > > > > http://images.burningman.com/index.cgi? > > image=7249&q_year=&q_photog=&q_keyword=&q_category=art_cars > > >The above link shows an image for Cinnabar Charm which his a Type II. If >you are serious about this vehicle, do a search on the site for Cinnabar >Charm. > >When you said knots, I thought you were referring to the submarine >Vanagon. Am I missing something? The submarine Vanagon has been >converted to look like a submarine. It even has a periscope installed, and >is operated by a guy who calls him self Captain Ping. You can here the >bus pinging through it's loudspeakers. > >I met Capt. Ping in Reno, after driving for 10 hours from Los Angeles. He >drove circles around me in the parking lot at Safeway. He didn't say "hi" >or any normal salutation like that. All he said was: "How many times did >you break down before you got here?" > >I had to laugh. What a greeting. It said sooo much about my relationship >to my vehicle. > >The answer was twice. And there would be three more to come before I got >home. > >There is also a camp called VW Bus Camp, but Cinnabar and Ping prefer to >camp on their own. For more information see: http://www.vwbuscamp.com > >Love and Rockets, >DaBomb _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963
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