You should try driving around in my daughter's 87 Vanagon (AKA The Mystery
Machine) and see what happens.  Around home they (the police) are used to
it, but whenever it goes out of state it pulls all sorts of attention.
Sometimes good, and sometimes not.  I got on a wrong road in Chattanooga, TN
and attempted a "U" turn and was pulled over before I even got straighten
out!  Interestingly enough once we got to the aquarium more attention (and
photographs) was on the Mystery Machine than on the displays in front of the
aquarium.  Talk about high fives and camera photos while going down the
road!  I had a 65 Mustang GT350 fastback that was totally restored that
didn't get as much attention.

Route 66 Rider!
Ramon Hill
Live Long and Be Free
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-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Geo & Kathleen Hahn
Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 7:08 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Watch Those Out of State Plates and Don't Take any Crap

Bob Stevens wrote:

>...Oh, and does bald and 64 y/o change my profile any?...
>

Probably not.  Vanagon trumps appearance.  We got pulled over in Apple
Valley CA when my wife made a right turn and the right rear wheel ran over
the white line along the right edge of the road.  In essence the right rear
wheel went into the bike lane for a moment (though there were no bikes
anywhere).  The officer was a bit surprised to find that the driver was a
woman his mother's age.  Suddenly everything was very polite and we were
soon on our way.

Geo

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