Brings a tear to your eye doesn't it?

On 7/31/07, BJ Feddish <bfeddish@netreach.net> wrote:
>
> Ol' Ben brought a few VW's over here to sell.  Not much interest but he
> sold
> the ones he brought over in order to pay for his ticket back to
> Europe.  The
> bugs eventually caught on. He then saw a flatbed truck being used to ferry
> parts around the VW plant and then drew a box with 4 wheels on it on a
> napkin (like the Stonehenge from Spinal Tap) as his design for a new
> vehicle.  The new vehicle was the VW bus. The first one was on a bug
> chassis
> which bent in half under the weight. The new reinforced version was a hit
> all over the world for those who desperately needed a box on wheels that
> went up to 50 mph.
>
> Later someone added a sloped windshield to that box on wheels and found a
> way to make water leak out of the motor.  With a couple hundreds pounds of
> camping gear these vehicles found homes with crazy people who like to
> throw
> money at them.
>
> Bryan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
> mike
> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 10:54 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: 60 years ago this week
>
> ?
>
>
> On 7/31/07 7:41 AM, "Alistair Bell" <albell@UVIC.CA> wrote:
>
> > The list is pretty quiet about this big birthday.
> >
> > Old Ben Pon started the ball rolling 60 years ago this weak.
> >
> > huzzahs!
> >
> > Alistair
> >
> >
> >
> > '82 westy, diesel converted to gas in '94
> > http://www.members.shaw.ca/albell/
>

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Thanks,

Jeff
90' Carat (It's Blue, It's Beautiful. Now sporting a very unstylish brown
interior taken from the parts bus)
86' (We call this one Parts)
85' GL (Sidelined and feeling neglected)