In a message dated 11/10/05 2:30:56 AM Eastern Standard Time,
inua@CHARTER.NET writes:

> Stan is right. These puppies take serious mollycoddling. But I think it
> has more to do with age of the vehicles more than anything else. My van
> is 1988 GL. By model year it's 18 years old. So there are going to be
> ongoing maintenance issues.
>
>
 i am sadistic, i own 4 that are runners, not counting the 10+ parts vans.
(i have no life, no girlfriend, all my free time i spend working on my
vanagons and most of my paycheck goes into keeping my vanagons running...

wait..i dont own my vanagons...my vanagons OWN ME.

someone please help me, this is an incureable disease  LOL

the above is sad, but true!
chris