One of the only great memories that I have about driving my 82 Diesel Westy
 was in upper NY state when I actually (if I'm lying I'm dying) passed a
red  Ferrari. I guess this guy was driving a car that wasn't his own and was
petrified that he might wreck it if his right foot pressed the accelerator
more  than 1/32 of an inch. He was going about 40 mph in a 55 mph stretch of
road as I  overtook him. Somewhere I have a picture that the wife took as we
passed him.  Always wanted to frame that with the speeding ticket that I
could never get  together and mount it in the van. It was a once in a lifetime
diesel Westy  moment. Now I drive the super powerful 90 hp 2.1 Westy (vs.
the super slow 60 hp  diesel Westy)!

David Clarkson
90 Westy

In a message dated 8/19/2010 11:46:18 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
wolzphoto@Q.COM writes:

Not  frustrating for me with my 1.6NA DoKa.  Rush hour traffic tends to  be
pretty slow; I never have a problem keeping up.  If traffic is  cooking
along, I just pull into the right lane.  I'm going fast enough  to be legal
on 'most any road in the US, and occasionally even get to pass  one or two
old codgers out near Sun City!

Yep.   Relaxing.

Karl Wolz

|-----Original Message-----
|From:  Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of
|Jason
|Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 7:18 PM
|To:  vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
|Subject: Re: Is it Calming to Drive a  Vanagon
|
|Has anyone else ever driven a stock diesel Vanagon through  rush hour
|traffic?  Now that's not very calming.... :) Darn right  frustrating!!
|
|Jason
|
|
|On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 8:39 PM,  Christopher Berchin <ctbtyper@yahoo.com>
|wrote:
|> For me, no,  it isn't calming.  But I do generally have a stupid grin on
|my  face
|> while I drive it.  :)  I own and have driven many  nicer cars than my
bus,
|but I
|> still smile when I drive it.  It's just fun.  But who am I telling that
|to...
|>  :)
|>
|>
|>  Chris
|>