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Subject:Re: [WetWesties] Living In Vanagon Land?
From:Peter T. Owsianowski
Date:Mon, 17 May 2010 17:48:51 -0400

Can't imagine that here in flyover country here in northern Indiana.  It is
not uncommon to go months without seeing a Westy or GL.  Also, rarely see
one in Winter months.

I think they are more common in Michigan than Indiana to boot.

Pete
'79 Westy "Aardvark"
'87 Westy "JoesVan"
WWW.Busesbythebeach.com

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Matthew Snook <matt@greenbeard.us> wrote:

> Loren, I know what you mean!  Remember the discussion last year, somebody
> posted the membership locations for all the vanagon.com members - the West
> coast is where it's at!  I'm in Eugene, Corvallis, and Portland fairly
> often, and they're everywhere.  The first time there were three of us
> Westies at a four way stop I thought "What are the odds against that?!"
> Since then it has happened several times.  The residential neighborhoods I
> visit often sport more than one Westy per block, when I gas up there
> is.well, I can't say 'usually' but it's not a rare occurrence for there to
> be at least one othe Westy or vanagon at the station.  I don't think that's
> typical of the country as a whole.
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> Matt
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> From: wetwesties@yahoogroups.com [mailto:wetwesties@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of Loren Busch
> Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 9:36 AM
> To: Wetwesties; Vanagon
> Subject: [WetWesties] Living In Vanagon Land?
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> I drove out to West Seattle Friday to meet a friend.
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