Hey, HEY!! None of this was intended as anything other than good fun.. not
intended as dogma, position, religion or law.

Just a laugh. Some saw the humour, some didn't.

Whatever, just please, take a deep breath (of air or, consistent with the
theme of the thread, the inhalent of your choice), form a lotus position,
and reach a karmic state of peacefulness, knowing how lucky you are to have
a computer, a car, a warm bed and food. How fortunate we all are regardless
of our beliefs, vehicles and locations.

And most important, especially when in the lotus position, don't get your
scroats in a knot (female listees exempted).

At 12:26 AM 5/10/98 -0400, Chrisw7971 wrote:
>In a message dated 98-05-10 00:01:49 EDT, pdooley@GTE.NET writes:
>
><< Chris, looks like you did write the above, unless your mail was tampered
> with in transit.  I doubt it.  I feel I can speak for the majority by saying
> these comments should sent privately, or better yet, left unsaid.
>  >>
>
>I see and yet you send this to the list and not me personally.  Excuse me but
>I did not write that letter.  I do not do drugs and do not wish to be thought
>of as the author of that letter on this list.  Still it is my fault for even
>making a comment on it.  However for the record here below is the original
>letter, written by one "thetrans@INAME.COM"   [NOTICE NOT
>Chrisw7971@aol.com!!!]
>
><< Subj:              Re: for sale;     1987 syncro vanagon!!!!!!!!!!
> Date:  98-05-09 08:05:06 EDT
> From:  thetrans@INAME.COM (thetrans)
> Sender:        Vanagon@VANAGON.COM (Vanagon Mailing List)
> Reply-to:      thetrans@INAME.COM (thetrans)
> To:    Vanagon@VANAGON.COM
>
> At 06:19 AM 5/9/98 -0400, Modl6971 wrote:
> >In a message dated 98-05-09 03:41:20 EDT, dearbo@EROLS.COM writes:
>
> [el snipieo]
>
> >
> > East coast car, huh,   must be a rust bucket.
> >
> Wow! Such venom.. most unlike what one expects here. Well here's my non
> mechanical $.02:
>
> 1) VW's, and especially the van/westies have special places in people's
> hearts, which often result in people doing irrational things.. paying more
> than maybe an objective buyer would for a used vehicle, putting more money
> into one to keep it going, etc.
>
> Thats the nature of this beast. Kinda like beanie babies. I bet there are
> some wonderful geographic stats on who'se paying big muchacha $$ for a
> thing that literally cost $.25 to make!! But another case of emotion
> overruling logic.. society is full of such examples... and a footnote.. in
> MOST cases it makes people happy!!
>
> 2) I think I know why syncros (and VW vans in general) cost more on the
> west coast vs. the East and Mid West. You guys got the good dope first.
> Thirty years ago, the west coast had the best drugs. So a huge emotional
> bond took place when the good ganj was passed in the ol VW vans (westies,
> splitties and regular passenger vans). At that time there were fewer vans
> in the East and Mid West, and the dope wasn't as good, so fewer emotional
> bonding experiences. West Coasters are always seeking to maintain that
> wonderful coolness from the sixties (which gets harder and harder every
> year.. first Nixon, then Reagan, then Bush, then El Nino and Gingrich... I
> digress), and this is just one of those manifestations.
>
> But lets not forget, this is the ... nineties...! We all pay exhoribitant
> amounts for sinse (gold is literally cheaper), and hell our Mid West
> bretheren grow as much or more than our friends up in Humbolt! And at least
> it is, for the most part, all really good, everywhere!! Folks in the East
> and Mid West smoke the same quality stuff as the gang on the West Coast,
> its just that the retro emotional bonding drive isn't as strong, and
> consequently a reverse regressive economic pattern is observed relative to

> van pricing.
>
> Brothers and sisters!! Can't we all just get along regardless of what van
> we drive, what engine replacement we've installed, and most of all, what we
> paid for our syncros?
>
> Reminds me of a story, once I was in the middle of nowhere, well actually
> it was Lodi New Jersey [lets not go there]........
>
> signed,
>
> A proud owner of a 1987 westy syncro obtained in a moderately priced deal,
> and subject to all of the heartache of inflated parts prices, breakdowns,
> etc, as everyone else (West Coasters too) and willing to come back for more
> because I love this vehicle, man.....sniff sniff.. and based in the East!
>
>
>
> "Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you
> look at it right"
>
> Hunter/Garcia
>
>
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> Subject:      Re: for sale;     1987 syncro vanagon!!!!!!!!!!
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>  >>
>

"Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you
look at it right"

Hunter/Garcia