Yeah I appeared to be dropping the gloves but really I was just trying to stimulate a little holiday discussion :) It’s possible that having just turned 50 I am one of the ‘old timers’ but I appreciate hearing from you Really Old Timers!!!

My first post was in 1999.  Who else remembers where they were when the internet was invented.

Jeff

> On Dec 26, 2021, at 7:43 PM, John A <xstreamcanadian@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Ha I was thinking when I read who can top that... most of us over 50 can. Lol. My first was in 87 a 72 bus. Had one kind of vw or a few at a time ever since
> 
> Happy holiday
> 
> 
> 
> Sent from my Bell Samsung device over Canada's largest network.
> 
> 
> 
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Rob <vwrobb@GMAIL.COM>
> Date: 2021-12-26 9:17 a.m. (GMT-08:00)
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Wallaced
> 
> I bought my first '59 (a tintop) in 1972, picked up a copy of John
> Muir's "How to keep your volkswagen alive and running for the complete
> idiot" at the same time. That was the start... I learned to turn
> wrenches with that book and my bus ... had some type of VW (usually a
> bus) from then on.
> I didn't find the list until 94 or 95...
> 
> I do remember being Wallaced that first time!
> 
> I didn't get my first westy (an 84) until 2007 or so. Sold it in 2013
> (it was Subie powered by then). Didn't have a bus again until last
> year (a maroon '90 tintop with a subaru 2.2), bought it off a small
> used car dealers lot in Olympia where it had been sitting for awhile.
> I hadn't bought a VW bus off a lot since 1990 when I bought the 86
> Syncro from the dealer at Ala Moana Volkswagen in Honolulu (we were
> moving to Chicago and the '79 I had was missing it's heater boxes).
> 
> This morning I woke up to 2" of snow and it's still falling here
> (Tahuya) at almost sea level on Hood Canal in Washington state.
> 
> Merry Christmas everyone!
> 
> Rob
> vwrobb@gmail.com
> 
> On Sat, Dec 25, 2021 at 6:55 PM Jeff Palmer <w.jeff.palmer@icloud.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 28 years of Westfalia ownership this year! Who is out there that can top that :)
>> Jeff
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>