Damon,

Welcome to my world. My fiancee is pretty much a hippie as well and she
wants a KG very badly. So I have actually been looking for a fixer upper for
her. The nice part about my little hippie girl is that she grew up living
and working with her mechanic father and wrench-head brother - so she can
atually do a lot of the work herself. As a matter of fact most everything I
know about fixing/working on cars I learned from her and her dad.

Thank you,

Jeff Lincoln

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
Of Damon Campbell
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 4:46 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: dark side of ebay... (nvc)

My girlfriend, whether she likes it or not, is a
hippy.    A modern hippy, but a hippy none the less,
and as such, thinks Karmann Ghias are the cutest cars
in the world.  Now couple that with yesterday being
her birthday, perusing ebay for doublecabs, finding a
good running '65 KG only 20 miles from our house...
what do you get?  An impulse bid!  Well, i actually
placed the bid, but she made me do it!  (yeah, right).
 To make matters worse, we won it.

Now we have a pearl white ghia that needs a little
clutch work in the driveway.  Which, of course, makes
for happy hippies.

So now what do i do?  Rebuild the 2.1l i was going to
put in my '84 westy, or get the ghia ready for daily
driving?  I've forgotten how, um... organic it is to
drive an almost 30 year old oxyboxer vw.

I guess i have an actual question, too... what is the
best way to ease a mechanically inept girlfriend into
the world of auto mechanics?  Any tips for this one?

Happy friday to everyone, and the moral of the story
is you might just get what you bid for...

-damon

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'84 Westy
'65 Kharma Ghia (Dharma)

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