Hi All,

Okay, I'll volunteer info on myself too.  I am 36 and a resident of windy
Kansas--it's blowing like crazy right now!  As for the 'Hippy' references,
I have always been into VW's for their vehicular qualities, rather than
their cultural/counter culture connotations.  I have been 'into' anything
cars/vans/trucks/motorcycles for as long as I remember.  I had my first
car when I was 10--a 62 Rambler!  My dad felt that I should divert my
interests from plastic car models to the real thing.  By the time I was
16, I had bought and sold about a dozen cars or so.  Thoughout the late
70's I stayed focused on 55-57 Chevies, getting to know them inside and
out, but the market on them skyrocketed about 1980, so I cashed in what I
had and slowly turned my interested to VW's.

Air-cooleds have been my main vehicular focus ever since.  I have owned
100's of all types, but the darn Vanagon list sparked and fueled my
interest in Wasser Vanagons several years ago.  Now I have 3 h2o-cooled
Vanagons competing against 4 air-cooled VW's for my attention.

Politics/religion/family life I don't dwell on in my posting.  I do have
an Environmental Geologist wife who is lucky enough to work at home
inbetween traveling to jobsites, a 15 month old terrorist boy, and a 5
year old dinosaur crazy boy.  My day job is working for a suburban KC
public utility as a Geographic Information System Coordinator--sort of
like a computer cartographer (mapper) in normal terms.  I graduated from
the University of Kansas, but grew up in Omaha, Nebraska.  My other active
hobbies include playing the banjo, guitar, and mandolin (not all at once
though!); working on model cars, slot cars; woodworking and general house
maintenance!  8-)
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Jon Christensen
~Certified VW Nut     Check Out the Vintage VW Club of America:
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