They do like the Syncros !!!  :o)

I stopped at the top of a fairly rough hill,
in upper Mineral Basin, American Fork Canyon
In my 87 Syncro.
walked back down a bit
& offered to chain the Fords up the hill
>>>but- it's best to assume that around here,
>>>all of the other drivers are carrying.
Yeah, I'm sure they were thinking  about reachin for it!  heh heh...:o)

A VW guys' gotta have some pay back fun !!!  :o)
JC..

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Robert Stevens <mtbiker62@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Jan 10, 2011, at 9:36 AM, Doug Alcock wrote:
>
> >> The other profiling is when a will be passing a driver along a freeway
> and
> >> when they
> >> notice I'm passing, they speed up.    Extremely annoy especially when
> being
> >> I'm being
> >> followed by other cars wanting to pass the slower moving vehicle....
> >>
> >> Steven
> >> 91 Westy
>
> Guess I'll chime in related to this perspective of "profiling" ... I think
> I experience
> this fairly often. Folks want to "get ahead of that slow VW van" so they
> pass, cut
> into the safety zone I've been using ahead of me and create an unsafe
> margin.
> Maybe they'd do this to any vehicle. I try not to be reactive but don't
> always
> accomplish that. I've had that same situation Steven described and now can
> just drop the pedal and blow by them.
>
> My van now has a Subie H6 3.0 in it so I can drive pretty much however I
> choose,
> at any pace I want, on any grade. A Ford Bronco, in Denver (I was visiting
> family)
> tried to pass me on my right on a freeway on-ramp, the lane that ends when
> it get to the freeway lanes, and about 200 feet or so long, When I could
> see this
> I just dropped my foot and took off and could see him disappearing in my R
> side view mirror. After getting onto the freeway he pulled up to my L side,
> gunning it, wanting to race. Don't think I've ever seen anyone
> gesticulating
> as much from the driver seat of a moving vehicle as him. Nice restored
> Bronco,
> dorky driver.
>
> I get a LOT more waves, oogling looks, thumbs up, etc. than I do the
> "I'd better get ahead of that slow VW van" stuff. I like owning the van for
> a lot of reasons, but what I guess I'd call the admiring notoriety doesn't
> get lost in those reasons. I get stopped in grocery store parking lots 1 of
> 5 trips to discuss "the van." Construction workers doing work in the
> neighborhood, cable installers, the postal worker, UPS/FedEx drivers,
> all like chatting about "what's that got in it" and the resultant 10 minute
> chat ensues. There seem to be a lot of VW Van Fans out there.
>
> Bob
> '87 Syncro Westy
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/syncronaut/sets/72157615490910502/
>