okay since everybody else is telling their storey, i'll just hop on th
bandwagon.

i am 18 years old, i was born at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore,
MD at 4:30 am on January 14, 1980.  my parents had owned a Karmann-Ghia
until i was born and decided to ditch it for a new peugeot wagon.  in the
spring of 1983, my sister was born, and that fall, my parents decided to
get a minivan.  they looked all around at the domestic models, but they
were all too yucky (except for the chevy, it wasn't yucky but it was too
big)  they finally decided upon a red and white volkswagen vanagon.  in
1986, my parents decided that the a/c was draining too much power from the
engine, so they disconnected it.  the following year(1987), the heads
cracked and a replacement engined was purchased.  the "new" engine, had
much less spunk than the original one did, and my mom is still not happy
about that.  anyway, this is where i begin to enter the vanagon picture.
at the time, we had the van, and a honda accord.  my dad, wanted to get
rid of the van and purchase another can(chevy astro).  i convinced him
that getting rid of the van would bring down fire from heaven and we kept
it.  we ended up trading the accord for a subaru wagon.  the date now is
jan 11 1997.  the van cracked another head, and my dad really wants to get
rid of it.  i taalked to people on this list, and saw that people were
swapping out the van engine for a better engine.  so i told my dad, let's
do it. so he got a jeep, and i got the van :-)

i started on the swapping project, but it's still not complete.  i need
some flexible radiator hose.

that's my story, adn if you didn't like it delete it
cya,
Sudhir H. Desai                         1984 VW Vanagon 3.4 liter Chevy V-6
cdes@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu            1996 Subaru Outback 2.2 liter flat-4
sudhir_desai@geocities.com              1997 Jeep Cherokee

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