I was standing at the light and I hear someone shouting from a truck at us
"damn hippies".  My two boys were bursting out laughing.  They love the van
even more now.
Zoltan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Hanson" <dhanson@GORGE.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 10:43 PM
Subject: Vanagons being called "Hippie Wagons"..

>  This has puzzled me.
>
> I was one, a hippie.  Kinda proud of it, actually.  Hung out with the
> counter culture, got beat over the head by the cops  at Century City
> during
> the one war protest I attended, went to the Monterey Pop Festival...in my
> '57 36hp South African splittie.  Vanagons were not gonna be produced for
> another what, 12-15 years when  the Hippie movement was happening.  When
> the
> Vanagon came along, all the hippies already shed their bellbottoms and had
> real jobs, families and mortgages..
>  I've had children call my '84 a "Hippie Van" a few times
> recently...Sheesh!
>   I remember when one of my buddies came back from California in his
> *almost* brand new Bay window bus...All us "Hippies" kinda laughed at
> him....but when it came time to go rock climbing or kayaking, we always
> took
> Harry's bus, not the old beater split window hippie vans...And his would
> start at -40 f, so he always got to drive us to work during the cold
> spells
> in Wyoming.
>  I guess to an outsider, one VW van is much like another...Come to think
> of
> it, my present van does sort of feel similar to my 57, and I do sometimes
> live in it..Maybe it IS a hippie van, still...so, does that make me a
> Hippie, still?
>  Don Hanson
>
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