And a Happy Birthday to you Loren - plus many more.

Peter Marsh  - recently your junior by almost one year!

On Jul 1, 2013, at 12:39 PM, Loren Busch <starwagen@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> Do the young ones 'get it'?  A couple (of many) anecdotes from camping
> with the WetWesties for the last 11 years.  As I got out of my Westy and
> walked up to the gathering group at the first WetWesties event I ever went
> to I was greeted by a very young young lady sitting in the drivers seat of
> a Bay Window.  After introducing ourselves she poured me a paper cup of red
> wine and I figured I was with a good group.  Shortly after that at another
> WetWesties event an eighteen year old slip of a girl pulled up in her Bay
> Window with the engine and tranny she had just rebuilt (both) and she had
> finished installing the night before.  And at another event when I asked
> the two late teen aged boys, working on the Splitty they  had arrived in,
> what was the appeal of a 40 year old vehicle to them they had trouble
> coming up with a specific answer.  But they were there again the next
> campout.  So don't worry about it, there will be more and more competition
> in the Vanagon market place for some time to come.
> Loren Busch
> Turned 74 today