At 11:23 AM 8/18/98 -0700, coyote wrote:
>The 'sermons' were the preaching of a grumpy opinionated guy and
>mostly applied to air-cooled busses.  Among other things, Mr. Hoover has
>opined that Vanagons (and water-cooled VWs in general) were 'orphans' and
>would quickly rust away into oblivion.
>
Yeah, he didn't want to have much of anything to do with waterboxers or type
IV engines. Nonetheless, I very much enjoyed his writing and philosophical
insight and do sort of miss the days when he had a presence on the list.
And, like it or not, his predictions about the 1.9l and 2.1l waterboxer
engines may come to pass some day.

Mark McCulley (also grumpy and opinionated sometimes)