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Subject:Re: Re[5]: SYNCRO - Different lands
From:Karl Wolz
Date:Thu, 21 Oct 1999 14:35:26 -0700

Please don't try too hard.

Karl Wolz

----- Original Message -----
From: MAINTTEC DUNBAR <MAINTTEC.DUNBAR@TOTAL-OIL-MARINE.CO.UK>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 1999 8:50 AM
Subject: Re[5]: SYNCRO - Different lands

>      Hi
>
>      Sorry if ive offended anybody....... but after travelling and
>      working in the Middle East I find that a good sense of humour is
>      essential !!!!
>
>      Cheers
>
>      Stewart Signol
>      ps Ill try to be more PC in the future
>
>
> ______________________________ Reply Separator
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> Subject: Re: Re[3]: SYNCRO - Different lands
> Author:  "Alan J. Flint" <ajflint@itsa.ucsf.edu> at TOM_INTERNET
> Date:    21/10/99 06:26
>
>
> Hello:
>         I agree with David B.  I like to think that Vanagon owners are
> a cut above this sort of cultural insensitivity.  Can't we think of a
> positive way to be "funny"?
>
> Alan
> '87 Syncro Westfalia
>
> On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, MAINTTEC DUNBAR wrote:
>
> >      And phrases like "thanks for taking me hostage" and "no I cant
> >      fit a camel in a syncro
> >
> >      stewart
> >
> >
> > ______________________________ Reply Separator
> _________________________________
> > Subject: Re:      Re: SYNCRO
> > Author:  "Bill Johnson" <bjohns@dtx.net> at TOM_INTERNET
> > Date:    20/10/99 11:21
> >
> >
> > Have you learned your essential Arabic phrases, like, "Thank you
> > for letting me ride in the trunk of your car" ?
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: MAINTTEC DUNBAR <MAINTTEC.DUNBAR@TOTAL-OIL-MARINE.CO.UK>
> > To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 1:21 AM
> > Subject: Re: SYNCRO
> >
> >
> > I just read your post regarding Syncro 16s.  I would like to ask
> > a favour:
> >
> > I have just accepted a job with the American University of Cairo
> > for Sept 2000
> > and between now and July I would like to buy a European Syncro
> > Westfalia
> > Diesel and drive it to Egypt to use for the next several years.
> > It does NOT
> > have to be a syncro 16 - and I may even prefer a 14.
> >
> > Do you know of an LHD Syncro Westy Diesels that are FS?  or any
> > good
> > places to look for these?  like web sites??  or Magazines??
> >
> > Thanks,  Malcolm Stebbins,
> >                 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
> >                 91 Syncro Westy (gas)
> >
> > MAINTTEC wrote:
> >
> > >      Whats the biggest tire size I can fit on a 16"
> > westie..... its
> > >      presently running on 195R16 but i think you can go much
> > bigger
> > >
> > >      Stewart Signol
> > >
> > >      92 syncro westie 16"
> >

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