Long live the list please!

I just searched the archives, my first post I could find from an old email
address was 1999.  I was driving an 82 diesel with a 1.6TD at the time.
Not personally on facebook myself, although I do give in and post under my
wife's from time to time.   Facebook is a terrible plague and invasion
of privacy.  It is also a terrible format for car forums and I wish people
would migrate back to better platforms.

Regards,
Jason

On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 at 18:54, Karl Ploessl <karl.ploessl@gmail.com> wrote:

> yes, i hope the vanagon list will live for a long time. I joined first in
> 1995, then unsubscribed. And rejoined in 1998 when I bought my '81 AC Westy
> (Jenny).
>
> Karl.
>
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 5:17 PM Dan N <dn92610@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > *looks like this is a good time to share my story regarding VW bus and
> > vanagon...*
> >
> > 1977… I lived and work in Belgium, me and my then girl friend (later
> wife)
> > went on vacations in Southern of France and Corsica on a motorcycle, a
> BMW
> > R100RT. We camped a lot and at a campsite we met a couple with an air
> > cooled Westfalia… and met a some more other tintops. We think about it
> and
> > 1978 we bought an apple green barn door bus 1900cc air-cooled tintop. We
> > used it for vacation till 1985, the year we emigrate to Southern
> > California… we went thru a set of CV joints, one engine and many other
> > parts but we enjoy the bus a lot.
> >
> >
> > 1985 to 1988.. we use the motorcycle to camp and travel across the USA,
> > riding and camping from So Cal. to New York and back…
> >
> >
> > 1988… first house and 1st child, a daughter. We bough a sidecar for our
> > motorcycle and keep traveling/camping on it with the baby and our Fox
> > Terrier till 1990.
> >
> >
> > 1990… 2nd child, a son… now a family of 4 and a Fox Terrier on a
> motorcycle
> > w. side car !!!!  errr … we bought a 1985 vanagon 1.9WBX weekender (pop
> > top/no kitchen).. it was a very sweet weekender, 5 years old, 20K miles
> > almost like new to us. We travel/camp many places with it, Baja
> California
> > 3 times, up and down the West coast too many times to count. We keep the
> > van till 2005, went thru one engine.
> >
> >
> > 2005… a some freaky teenagers stole our van… we recovered it with dings,
> > destroyed interior and poops/vomit/drugs/liquor everywhere in the van.
> > Since the interior is destroyed, the engine/trans. were not fresh
> anymore,
> > we sold it and buy a 1988 Orly Blue Carat from Greg (our VW mechanic).
> > *Greg
> > introduced me to the Samba.com.*
> >
> >
> > 2010… our daughter graduated from college and wants to see the country…
> We
> > gave her the Blue Snail (the Carat).. and presto she went on a cross
> > country trip with no problem… the Carat still has a rebuilt engine from
> > Greg. We feel miserable without a van for 6 months so we looked around to
> > get one for us… we looked… we looked.. we wanted a weekender but found
> > none, we don’t like full camper westfalia.. and then we found a white
> > tintop syncro, very good condition for the price of a weekender 2WD.
> Again
> > many, many trips with it and we still have it, we called it the Burro
> > Blanco.
> >
> >
> > 2014… my wife wants a vanagon on her own… We bought a 1989 Tornado Red
> > Carat from our friend James, *he’s the one who introduced to Vanagon **@
> > gerry.vanagon.com <http://gerry.vanagon.com>*… my wife enjoys and loves
> > her
> > Red Carat a lot. We still have it, we call it the TRed (mimicking TRex)
> >
> >
> > 2015… my son wants a vanagon on his own… We bought a 1985 1.9 WBX with
> > sunroof… but the project to refresh it take too long… so we looked around
> > and bought a 1988 Dove Blue tiptop for him… he uses it extensively, went
> > thru one engine (engine fire) a trans, a set of shocks and springs. He
> > still has it and enjoy it a lot… and we still have the 1985 sunroof
> waiting
> > for the project to be finished…
> >
> >
> > 2017… we moved to Oregon, near Eugene and put up our house in So Cal. for
> > rent. We need a truck for the property in Oregon… the previous owner of
> the
> > property offered his Toyota Tundra for $22/24K.. we looked around and
> > compare… a Toyota Tacoma private party sale for $18K… nope… then a
> Belgian
> > friend of us from Belgium suggest us to look at Busman.be… We found a
> 1991
> > Red Syncro Doka 16 1.9Tdi, dual lockers … and we bought it. My son uses
> it
> > on the farm.
> >
> >
> > winter 2017… snow, rain in winter months in Oregon… we think that we need
> > another syncro to move around… we found a 1991 Bronzit Syncro with locker
> > and decoupler for sale in Washington, near Columbia River… and we bought
> > it…
> >
> >
> > *and I am still on gerry.vanagon.com <http://gerry.vanagon.com>… posting
> > here and there, reading your email… :-) - no FaceBook, no Tweeter...*
> >
> >
> > that’s it folks….
> >
> >
> > thank you for reading my longish story…
> >
> >
> > dan
> >
>