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Subject:Re: Vanagons being called "Hippie Wagons"..
From:The Bus Depot
Date:Tue, 13 May 2008 10:27:15 -0400

> I don't own birkenstocks, and I usually only wear tie-die on weekends.
> I work in the tech sector, and hold down a regular job supporting a
> family of five in the suburbs. Somehow I thought that buying a 1987
> Vanagon would endorse me as one of the many... Going legit, so to
> speak. Not that I would ever sell my baywindow westfakia... I just
> thought that driving a watercooled silver-blue wedge would modernize
> my image somewhat.

Pre-Depot I drove a VW Bus and wore a tie or a suit to work, and people
flashed peace signs at me all the time.  Now I'm my own boss so I can wear
anything I damn well please, which typically means Birkenstocks and so on.
But even with Phish or the Dead blasting, I still get far fewer peace signs
flashed at me driving a Vanagon in a tie-dye, than I did driving a Bus in a
tie.

- Ron Salmon
  The Bus Depot, Inc.
  www.busdepot.com
  (215)  234-VWVW

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