The cool part if the rarity is the stares, smiles and thumbs up you
get going down the road.  That and the occassional middle finger from
a big fat fellow Hoosier in a big truck -jacked up on pork rinds and
McDonalds coffee who nearly ran you off the road.

On 5/18/10, 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
>>
>>
>> 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
>>>
>

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