> The list is also more "naive", less "wise" than it once was -- the
> newbies by-and-large are younger (i.e. college students) who literally
> LOVE their Vanagons, but don't yet have the history of the old-guard

hey i resent that statement!!(well only kinda(resentment that is))

i'm 19, have had my van in our family for oh about 14 years. i grew up in
that thing, and i still love it, even though the head's cracked every
100000 miles, i was tought how to drive in my dad's 70something ghia at
the tender age of 10., and now 9 years later, i still remember how
excrutiating painfull it is to go to school(35 minute drive one way)
without any heat because the air coming over theengine was way too cold to
get the heat into the passenger compartment.
anyway, my point is that just cause some of us are of a younger
generation, some of the experiences some of us have had shouldn't relegate
those some of us to the generalization of "naive college-bound kid"

sorry.. i'm audi here.....lol laters dudes/dudettes

Sudhir H. Desai          1984 VW Vanagon 3.4 liter Chevy V-6
desa4622@kettering.edu   sudhir_desai@geocities.com
ICQ# 17014903 & 8255956  http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Speedway/1889