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Subject:Re: [WetWesties] Living In Vanagon Land?
From:Michael Sullivan
Date:Tue, 18 May 2010 16:27:17 -0500

Saw a Vanagon and a 70-74 air cooled today at a car lot.  Haven't called em,
but I think the Vanagon was round headlights. In San Antonio 210-270-9639.
Vanagon and older one had brown/tan paint.  Both looked in good condition,
just movin too fast to stop.
Michael in San Antonio
91GL Weekender AT 2.1L 'Gringo'
73 Beetle

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Mark A Kippert <vanagon@kippert.com> wrote:

> Pete's right about Indiana. I live in Indy and own two Vanagons. Based on
> the quantity I've seen on the road since Oct '08, I'd say I own about half
> the known Vanagons in Indy.
>
> Mark K
> 1986 GL/2WD/4SPD
> 1990 Carat/2WD/Auto
>
>
> On May 17, 2010, at 5:48 PM, Peter T. Owsianowski wrote:
>
> > 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 <http://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.
> >>
> >> Matt
> >>
>