RIP Tom Forhan. As our vans age, so do we. We’ve been losing friends every year and it’s happening more frequently.

BenT

> On Nov 23, 2023, at 4:04 PM, Jim Arnott <jrasite@eoni.com> wrote:
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> The vanagon list started in early April of 1994 hosted on the University of Minnesota’s lenti.med server. Gerry Skerbitz was our first admin. 
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> The list split happened a couple years later… Checking archives:
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> http://gerry.vanagon.com/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind9607&L=vanagon&P=R21349
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> 10 Jul 1996
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> So yeah, Almost 30 years ago.
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> Looks like my first post in June of 1995 was telling folks about a Syncro (misspelled) for sale in the next town over. Tom Forhan flew out from the east coast and bought it. Had it the rest of his life. (It was a good one and so was he.)
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> And that my friends, is why it’s good to have a record of where we’ve been.
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> Jim
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