At approximately ten o'clock this morning, eastern time, there was a
terrific gust of wind, which was first thought by the local experts in such
matters, to be a mild tornado.  It was subsequently reported by the National
Weather Service that the cause of the big wind gust was not related to your
usual low pressure system moving though, but rather to the inexplicable and
sudden opening of local newspaper classified ad pages all across the land by
vanagon list subscibers.

I just smiled at your stroke of good fortune, like the Mona Lisa!

Dave

davidgunning@pivot.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "chris Moyles" <chris@FAUQUIERHOUSING.ORG>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 9:15 AM
Subject: My lucky vanagon day

>A couple months ago I had to park my 86 syncro because a cylinder stud
> bolt apparently broke and dumped coolant into the oil and I haven't had
> the time or a garage to pull the heads and figure out what broke...(
> that will also be the biggest repair this shade tree mech has
> attempted..)  So I open the local newspaper the other day and, low and
> behold, there is an 87 vanagon gl in there with 29,000 miles on a new
> 2.1 waterboxer for $2400!
>
> It was a 45 minute drive over and now she sits beside the syncro -same
> color and all, and the body is in better shape.
>
> Sometimes the gods smile down on us....
>
>
> cheers,
>
> chris
>