I see..
adapt your vehicle to your conditions..
and not adapt your conditions and lifestyle to suit your vehicle
preference.

Just think of ALL the human effort and fuel and polution involved in all
those traffic jams !

I knew that was dysfunctional and wasteful when I was 6.
Just think ..the human energy wasted with the 9 to 5, M to F
thing....never mind what toll roads and bridges cost in lost fuel,
pollution, health hazzard to the toll takers and all that.
jus crazy.

oh 'scuze me' ..still 10 hrs to Fridae.

:-)

On 1/22/2014 5:35 PM, Stuart MacMillan wrote:
> Ha, ha!  The estimated 3 million gear changes I've made in my lifetime led
> me to my latest auto Westy.  Way too much traffic around here now to
> constantly be shifting to go from zero to 25 to zero to 50 to zero, etc.
> constantly.  At peak times heading in or out of Seattle (Fridays out,
> Sundays back in) there can be 60 miles of this.
>
> Stuart
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> I test drove an automatic and a manual when I bought my Carat new in 1990.
> Hated the automatic, bought the manual. When my daughter got a 1990
> automatic a few years ago, I loved it. Vanagons have sure changed a lot in
> 24 years.
>
> Jim
>