Tooled into our quiet little subdivision (The Meadows of Reproduction) last
night to see a new addition - a white panel van in a driveway down the
street.  With my wife's Vanagon and my Bozobus our front, I began to wonder
if we could get the remaining empty, new houses to only look good to
Volkswagen owners with some kind of spell...

My mother-in-law has been pressuring my wife to have me paint the Bozobus
white, so that it won't lower the property values.  I wonder if this will
put more pressure on her (or me), or should I help our neighbor make
his/her van more entertaining?

It was an odd beastie.  Couldn't see the front, but it looked like a
'72-'77 kinda body style, except for the slightly-higher-than-normal roof.
It was also in just-off-the-showroom condition.  Later, I watched (and
heard) it drive away - it had a Rabbit engine!  This was a Mexican-made
bus!  I wish I'd gotten a look at the front (for that radiator) or the
license plate to see what country it was from.  If they could teach me the
trick for importing these...

bcnu - Grungy '61 dddPanel '68,'69 Bugs '90 Vanagon '67 Bus(parts)
the '67 isn't a rickshaw anymore - but I'm gonna make an MPEG movie
of running it down the street with my four-year-old driving :-)

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