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Subject:Re: Recent Car Talk Shows
From:Neil2
Date:Tue, 7 Oct 2008 07:43:07 -0700

Wasn't there a link to these going 'round?

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Anthony Egeln <regnsuzanne@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I thought I had the vanagon-volvo head-on collision video, but apparently I
> didn't save it.  If someone has it and can send it to me, or maybe a link to
> the video on YouTube....I'll send it to Car Talk.
>
> Thanks, Anthony
> '89 Syncro GL (Hidalgo)
>
>
> --- On *Mon, 10/6/08, Neil2 <vidublu@GMAIL.COM>* wrote:
>
> From: Neil2 <vidublu@GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: Recent Car Talk Shows
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Date: Monday, October 6, 2008, 8:00 PM
>
>
> I perked up when I heard Click & Cluck knocking our beloveds because,
> according to them, they're unsafe w/o airbags.  Unsafe?  I know seat belts
> and airbags are great things to have.  I never drive w/o me belt but I
> don't
> consider an airbag as
>  crucial to survival as a belt.  Anyone disagree, with
> data?
>
> I was highly offended by some entertainer on the airwaves insinuating me
> SaVannah is unsafe.  One of yous gearheads need to send them the crash
> videos we recently had going around here so they understand we're as safe
> as
> can be expected in a van of that era.  I'll take a bald mid lifer in a
> Vanagon any day over a young turk in a red coupe high on testosterone!
>
> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Ryan Alfonso <vangina@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Not sure if you guys have been listening, but last week a woman called
> > click
> > and clack to check whether a guy who lives in his '86 westfalia is
> "dating
> > material" or maybe just a whacko.  Pretty funny stuff.  Well, that
> same guy
> > called in THIS week to discuss his van and what it's like living in
> it.
> >  His
> > question was, "can you retrofit an airbag into a vanagon?".
>
> Great stuff.
> > Seems those guys get a lot of calls about old VWs, eh?
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Neil2
> '82 Diesel Westfalia (USS Tinosa)
> '86 Vanagon/Westfalia Wannabe (SaVannah)
> Nunquam Pendite Divendium
>
>
>

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Neil2
'82 Diesel Westfalia (USS Tinosa)
'86 Vanagon/Westfalia Wannabe (SaVannah)
Nunquam Pendite Divendium