OK, my turn.

I remember the first time I saw a Diesel Westy. It was at a stoplight.
When the light turned green, I watched as it ran through first gear,
through second gear, and by the time he had third gear boiling, it had
gained enough speed so I could tell it was moving! Of course, by then it
was already halfway through the intersection...

One other question for Stan - is the neighbor's cat a diesel?

Ron
'86 Syncro Westy - not exactly a paragon of swift movement, itself!
-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of Stan Wilder
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 4:26 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: who bought that ebay 83 diesel passenger van for
$3400?(NVC)

I'm anxious to try that with some of the neighborhood cats.
I run the neighbors cat off my front porch chair but he always comes
back. I run him out of my driveway but he always comes back. I'm just
curious as to how I'll know when we've exhausted his eight life and we
can have some results.

Stan

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
Of Jim Felder
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 4:51 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: who bought that ebay 83 diesel passenger van for
$3400?(NVC)

When I was a kid my brother and I did the same thing with a frog (no hot
pan, though). Put it in the freezer overnight, thawed it out and away it
hopped. We didn't get to repeat the experiment because our mother saw
the second frog.

Jim

On Apr 2, 2004, at 2:40 PM, Mark Tuovinen wrote:

> And maybe scorpions. I once saw a program where they took a scorpion,
> froze it in a block of ice for a month, and then thawed it out in a
> frying pan at 160F, it lived.
>
> Mark in AK
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tim Demarest <tim.demarest@POBOX.COM>
> Date: Friday, April 2, 2004 12:20 pm
> Subject: Re: who bought that ebay 83 diesel passenger van for $3400?
>
>> So... after a nuclear war, there will be nothing left but
>> cockroaches, diesel vanagons and twinkies?
>>
>> At 08:34 PM 4/1/2004 -0800, Jim Arnott wrote:
>>> And your point is? That gas powered VWs outnumber oil burners?
>>> Cockroaches outnumber humans too. ;-)
>>>
>>> Jim
>>> '81 Luftboxer ASI Weekender
>>> '82 Diesel Westfalia
>>> '83 Wasserboxer 7 passenger GL
>>> (Guess which one's my forever Van. Guess which one goes 400 miles
>> on a
>>> tank.)
>>>
>>> On Thursday, Apr 1, 2004, at 19:36 US/Pacific, Eric Zeno wrote:
>>>
>>>> Well,   Lets do a comparison.   How many have gas motors, and
>> how many
>>>> have diesels...... and for that matter how many have converted
there
>>>> diesel to gas?    Sorry your way out numbered.  That's all my
>> point is.
>>>> Here in the Burgh, out of the dozen or so Vanagons not one is a
>> diesel.>>
>>>>
>>>>             Eric                   86-VW4x4
>>>>
>>
>