You'll be back!

Karl Wolz

----- Original Message -----
From: Dom <dmoon@METZ.UNE.EDU.AU>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 8:10 PM
Subject: time

> nothing beats time
> maybe not even time itself
> thats if you subscribe to the theory of time being relative to an
expanding
> universe that will eventually slow and contract
>
> As for me, Its time to go :-(.
> I have owned VW's all my life. My first VW was a 1970 microbus, given to
me
> by my father who purchased it new. I am now however married and at 30
years
> of age, the thought of starting our next generation, our contribution to
the
> shape of the future world, is coming by to see us more often. Thus we want
> to own something a bit different (VW's are normal to us) while we are
still
> kiddyless. We are buying a 1991 Saab.
>
> I was taking all this rather well untill tonight. I can see our
transporter
> in her carport blisfully unaware, as we are, of the fate that awaits her
> tomorrow and I am sad :-(. I am surprised as I thought myself awfully
young
> to be a sentimentalist. After three years of totally reliable driving, she
> has a transmission jumping out of second and what I suspect is the start
of
> a long battle with "the leak". I might also add that I have never been let
> down by any Volkswagen. They tend to break slowly with heaps of warning so
I
> have always known where I stood with my cars
>
> And so I am performing the last ritual of unsubscribing from this gracious
> list. A gathering of sincere and warm individuals on a scale truly rare.
The
> VW road culture is truly unique in the car world and I am fortunate to
have
> found it so young in my motoring life. So I dare say I will be wandering
out
> into the world of a new list shortly, battling with the quirks and queries
> of a new genre and when it comes down to it, reengaged in my constant
> negotiation with time.
>
> Good luck Gerrys and perhaps more importantly
> happy motoring.
>
> Dom