At 10:41 PM 10/30/98, Robert A. Alexander wrote:
>Ari - Jeez, "70 mph" in a '62???  Am I safe in assuming this was a bug,
>NOT a Van???  I never got more than 60mph out of my '62 Kombi back in
>'75, except downhill/following a tractor-trailer!  Even then I felt like
>my life was in someone else's hands.  My '60 bug, in '66 would maintain
>65-70mph on South Florida roads and once buried the speedo whilst 3'
>behind the bumper of a tractor-trailer combo!!!
>
        It was a "bug", Type 1, model 113, to be precise. The one I picked
        up in Germany in 1961.

>Rabbits?  Nah, they're suicidal, like cats, deer and anti-American
>protestors!.  Nighttime on the road must mean something celestial to
>these particular critters.  They tend to just throw themselves in front
>of our vehicles during darkness!

        Although my encounter with the WestTexas jackrabbits was
        in daylight, I later had the opportunity to turn several of them
        into roadkill (er...runway-kill...sort of flat-jacks :-)) during a
        night landing on a WestTexas airstrip...Dropped a C-130 right on top
        of 'em!
>
>Obviously, you have NO idea how 150# chihuahuas WILL influence the
>course of human events!
>
        You've got me there...although Rusty, the wonder-Pom, (all 9lbs of
        him, including a full coat) can seem pretty ferocious when someone
        approaches his beloved Vanagon. He's a furry dervish until one of
        "his" people asks him to be quiet.

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