On Feb 23, 2009, at 1:00 PM, Walter Houle wrote:

> There sure are plenty still out there. I just got back from a Mt
> Palomar
> trip to watch the Tour of CA bike race go by.  On a 120 mile round
> trip I
> saw at least 10. Adventurewagon, Syncro, Westies, and Passenger
> Vans. All
> appeared to be well maintained and all were filled with people
> having fun.

I probably saw Walter on TV yesterday.  2M folks watching the bike
race, camping, dressed for Halloween, chasing racers on foot up the
Mtn, & having a great time waiting 24 hours to see the racers go by in
5 minutes!  Did see a number of Westies on the side of the road, but
none that I recognized!

The only reason I was watching was to avoid pulling the engine out of
my 65 westy again to put the right clutch cover in, instead of the
wrong one I put in 2-3 engine pulls ago(this month!).

I like the bike race scenario where the parts guy drives right behind
the racer w/ spare wheels, parts etc. to jump out & fix the bike if
anything goes wrong-could be a great way to drive a vanagon?

YMMV,

Mr. BZ
>
>
> Walter
> San Diego
>
> On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:18:34 -0800, mark drillock <mdrillock@COX.NET>
> wrote:
>
>> Come on now, mostly disappeared? I see them every day and I don't
>> mean
>> just the same few ones or any of mine either. I can show you where at
>> least 15 different ones are within a 2 mile radius of my house.
>> Almost
>> any time I go to a major store I see one or more.