That's not fair Joe!

Of course the poor man agreed to convert: he was trapped in a speeding van
with a zealot and would have agreed to anything at that point.    :-)

Having driven two conversions I am looking forward to doing my own and I'm
also guilty of enthusiastically spreading the gospel according to Subaru.

On 11/27/06, joe trussell <vanagongl@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> A friend of mine called on Saturday night and said he and his wife and two
> kids were stranded in Stratton, CO (near the Kansas border) after losing
> the
> V-belt on their '93 Eurovan Weekender en route from Kansas City.
>
> They had the Eurovan towed back to Denver by AAA, who incidentally refused
> to transport he and his family, and got a motel in Stratton.
>
> I took off early yesterday morning from Denver and headed out on the
> plains
> in my Vanagon to pick them up.  I had a great trip out; I've done a lot of
> mountain driving since the Subaru 2.2 conversion but hadn't done much
> flat-out highway driving.  I stayed around 70-75 MPH @ 4000-4100 RPM and
> got
> around 22 MPG for the 150 miles out there.
>
> They were happy to see me--I picked up my buddy and his family and all of
> their luggage, gifts, baby stuff, etc. and started back.  My buddy was
> telling me all about what a rough night they'd had the night before, costs
> involved, etc. as I took the onramp to the Interstate.
>
> He then stopped in mid-sentence and said, "whoa--how fast are we going?
> This thing is like a rocket!"  He turned to his wife "honey, did you feel
> that?  We're already going 70!"
>
> Anyway, I got him and his family back to Golden by noon.  And after the
> ride
> and the conversation about his Eurovan and my Vanagon, he was dead set on
> a
> Subaru-converted Vanagon when we arrived....
>
> Joe T.
>
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Jake
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