"I just want to say that I could have done 99.9% of what I did with a 2WD
vanagon
westy."

Then I stand corrected!  I don't need a Syncro.  Good thing, too, (to
reiterate a very stale point) because I've only had my latest one for seven
months and even though I go an amazing deal on it, I would take a massive
loss if I sold it now...

Joe T.

>From: Malcolm Stebbins <mwstebbins@YAHOO.COM>
>Reply-To: Malcolm Stebbins <mwstebbins@YAHOO.COM>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: 31K for a vanagon? You must be mad -- or not.
>Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 08:08:39 -0700
>
> > In a message dated 10/14/05 2:24:14 AM, Jahsurf@AOL.COM writes:
> >
> > Can you say ADVENTURE! Hell yes I can say adventure, and I can spell it
>too: S-Y-N-C-R-O.
>
> >> "George Goff" <THX0001@AOL.COM>
>
> >> What a dismal definition of adventure.  Is this to where we have come?
>
>I may take some heat for what I'm about to say........but I agree with Jeff
>here:
>
>I've done my share of ADVENTURE; having driven vanagon westies in Suadi
>Arabia, Morocco, Egypt,
>Jordon, Syria, Turkey and through much of Europe, USA and Canada. so if you
>want to talk
>'adventure' I can "talk the talk and walk the walk".
>
>I just want to say that I could have done 99.9% of what I did with a 2WD
>vanagon westy.  As
>"beauty is in the eyes of the beholder", so is 'adventure'.  I have a few
>minutes to waste, so
>here is an 'adventure' story:
>
>My son, when he was 18 years old, and a new driver, took my 91 Syncro Westy
>from Halifax NS, 90
>kms to Truro NS on a 4 lane divided highway. He & his buddies slept in a
>motel drove around for a
>day and drove 90 kms home on the same 4 lane divided highway.  He was SO
>proud of himself!!!!!
>smiles from ear to ear, he did it all by himself!!! Took a risk!!!! no
>adults!!! That weekend he
>DID know how to spell ADVENTURE and it was in a Syncro Westy, but it had
>nothing to do with Syncro
>or Westy.
>
>My point being that for some, a "small step for man" is an adventure, for
>others a soccer mum
>deflating the tyres to drive across sand to the BBQ pit, for some a trip
>from Terra del Fuego to
>Alaska and back, for some, a trip around Africa, for some getting "away
>from it all" in the wilds
>of Utah or BC, for me, my 2000 trip from Cairo to Amsterdam was an
>adventure.
>
>Granted, there are many who have done much more 'adventure travel' than I,
>and my hats off to
>them, but IMHO beauty, adventure, and the 'need' for a syncro westy are
>mostly in the heart,
>minds, goals, and yes, ego of the beholder.   Malcolm (NS, Canada)
>
>
>
>
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