

| Subject: | Re: Eye-opening encounter.. |
| From: | Chris S. |
| Date: | Sun, 5 Feb 2012 19:50:24 -0500 |
Yeah, darn newfangled technology. It's all rubbish. Why do they keep making new cars anyway? Chris. Wysłane z iPhone'a Dnia Feb 5, 2012 o godz. 18:28 J Stewart <fonman4277@COMCAST.NET> napisał(a): > Yeah, if it was anything like my friends 2003 Eurovan Westfalia, not much to envy except that VR6 engine. Not much room, stupid electric "cooler" (holds a 6 pack) his canvas has already rotted and his a/c quit twice. Jeff Stewart ----- Original Message ----- >> Yesterday I was checking my email, sitting in my van in the parking >> lot >> of a public library in the desert SW. A quite new white Eurovan camper >> pulled in beside me and the youngish couple got out and went inside. >> When >> they returned, the guy walked over and put his face against my window, >> shading his eyes to see inside....He was a bit startled when I tapped >> on >> the window and said hello, from behind my dark tinted windows....He >> began >> asking me about my "old van"...and was amazed to discover it had been >> built >> the same year he was born.....A Swiss couple, touring the US in their >> van.....Nice people.. >> I think I prefer my own van to theirs, though. I think mine works >> better, has better ground clearance, and it certainly has "more >> character". They didn't offer to trade, but if they had, they may have >> been refused.......Wait.....I could have probably sold that fancy new >> factory camper after a trade, and got about 20 vans like mine, or >> maybe a >> syncro and an inline VW 5sp like this one and had money left over..... >> Don Hanson
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