Macho thing I guess.
A real he-man loves the sound and smell of a noisy diesel engine. 
It's a real harsh sharp sound to me too, very jarring. 
I drove a turbo diesel vanagon for about 8 years too.  I was into
diesels.....but, not lately. 
Better fuel mileage not withstanding.   

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Elliott [mailto:camping.elliott@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 5:58 PM
To: Scott Daniel - Shazam
Cc: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Calculate fuel consumption when idling?

On 11/26/2007 5:39 PM Scott Daniel - Shazam wrote:

> There's these redneck type diesel pick-up truck and dump truck type people
> right near me, about 300 feet away ....they just LOVE [...] to fire up a
giant
> Ford diesel pick-up and let it idle for 40 minutes while they just stand
> around talking.

Yeah, hey -- what's up with that, anyway? Little Honda generators make me 
crazy, but puffed-up bulky pickups with clattering diesel engines bring 
out the Anarchist's Cookbook part of me. They love the sound of those 
engines so much they can't bear to shut them off, or what?

-- 
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
KG6RCR