let's talk about who has been working on cars the longest..
and who has worked on the most brands of cars.

and maybe who has been working on VW's the longest.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Max Wellhouse" <dimwittedmoose@CFU.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 8:07 PM
Subject: Re: Oldest

>I just turned 60, so I'm out of the hunt, but my first van was a
> white Texas-bred 1960 Kombi(no rust) with the double doors on the
> driver's side.  Paid $3.61 for it ie the cost of a compression check
> at the IH dealer in Clarinda Iowa.  A bunch of hippies had a load of
> tapestries etc(drugs???....ya think??) blew a hole in a piston on
> their way to a head shop in Ames off campus at ISU.  All they cared
> about was getting the "goods" to the head shop.  They said that if I
> delivered, I could have the bus.  A borrowed 1969 Ford XL and a
> rented U haul bumper hitch/tow bar combp later, it was home and so
> were the goodies.  Used piston and cylinder from my stock pile and I
> drove it all summer long.  Eventually got a clear title to it.
>
> Gave it to my roommate that fall in exchange for him co-signing a
> loan so I could buy my dream car, a blue 1963 356B Porsche
> Coupe.  Went bus-less from about 1970- 1978 when I bought a 71
> gold/white in Arkansas for like $700.  Wish I still had all three of
> those vehicles.....oh well
>
> DM&FS
>
> At 11:33 AM 10/7/2011, John Jensen wrote:
>>So if Craig is the youngest, who is the oldest?
>>And what is the average?  What was the most likely first VW van of the
>>average list member?   Splitty?
>>
>>John Jensen
>>johnjensen@johnjensenartist.com
>>http://www.johnjensenartist.com
>>bluesbug@verizon.net