Congrats and welcome Scott.

I'm sure this group will be helpful in your quest.

Enjoy your new Weekender,

Neil.

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Neil Nicholson '81 JettaWesty "Jaco
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On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Scott Dempster
<scott@venturawarehousegroup.com> wrote:
> Nicely said there Mr. Felder. (Any relation to Don?)
>
> I just came over from the only list I knew (Karmann Ghia) and Jim Felder's
> description of things here makes me wish I would have checked it out sooner.
>
> I purchased a 90 weekender a couple of months ago and love it. For the past
> 20 years I've been in the business of supplying parts for vintage VWs
> through Airheadparts and Karmann Ghia Parts and Restoration  Now, with my
> Vanagon I have a little fire stirring, like I did when I first got into
> Ghias. (I know there will be acquisitions of "Two Timing" from some on the
> Ghia list, so let's keep this between us).
>
> With the help of this group, I hope to accomplish two things.
> 1. Get a better feel for my new fancy.
> 2. Help with anything that is currently; hard to find, of poor quality, or
> over priced. (I manufacture about 800 parts currently, mostly Bug and Ghia).
>
> Thanks,
> Scott Dempster
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Felder" <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 9:47 AM
> Subject: Re: The Energy Non-Crisis
>
>
>> Well, it was on youtube, so it must be true. There have been so many
>> opportunities recently to discuss all of the big issues of our day--like
>> energy and and climate change--and every so often one of these
>> opportunities
>> makes it to this list, where the request comes from Jim the Moderator to
>> take it off. And so it should be.
>> I am as bad as anyone and worse than most about getting sucked into these
>> discussions. Shooting down liars and hypocrites is easy and fun. It's one
>> of
>> my most enjoyable pastimes. And I love discussing things with this group
>> not
>> because I expect agreement, but because it's the only list I've ever been
>> involved in where virtually everyone is civil and more-than-less mature.
>> So
>> naturally it's more fun to discuss, say, peak oil here than elsewhere.
>>
>> But, it just doesn't belong. There's nothing in this about vanagons
>> whatsoever, except in a very derivative way that doesn't come close to
>> passing the so-what test. So, with the arrogance of a reformed crack
>> addict
>> telling other people not to do crack, I'm writing to say that however
>> tempting, we shouldn't discuss this here.
>>
>> If anyone wants to start a discussion group for such topics, and invite
>> only
>> vanagonauts to it, I'll be the second one to join.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:56 AM, The Westy man <zolo@foxinternet.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Let's see what the List says about this
>>>
>>> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3340274697167011147
>>>
>