I think you're right!Something having to do with Roswell!   X-files stuff!
-----Original Message-----
From: Austin <austins@IX.NETCOM.COM>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Date: Monday, December 20, 1999 10:57 PM
Subject: shoulda waited for Friday(?)

>I've been noticing a very disturbing trend recently; methinks 'our'
>Vanagons are plotting against us.
>
>To wit - there currently seems to be a spate of *identical* symptoms of
>weird electrical gremlins, usually solved by replacing the ignition switch.
> Then there are tires, hundreds of which apparently wear out at the same
>time.  Auxiliary batteries ...cracked coolant sensors...sudden MPG drops to
>~10...disappearing 3-4 gear shifts...clutches gone south...sudden stumbling
>for no apparent reason...sticky lifters...seeping heads...air conditioners
>dying...and now one of our very own hijacked to a town in Texas that
>doesn't even exist (was a ransom paid to get out of that one? Roswell
>West?).  These things all seem to happen at the same time to
>(statistically) too many of us.
>
>I'm begining to think *our* Vanagons are communicating on their own virtual
>network, at this very moment, plotting to have a buncha brake calipers
>start binding, or windshields start leaking, or ????
>
>There's a good chance it's our own arrogance that is the source of this
>problem.  Taking a cue from the PC nazis in San Francisco (you no longer
>'own' pets in SF, you are a *guardian*), I think we must consider ourselves
>as GUARDIANS of our (oops) *the* Vanagons we own (oops again) care for.  As
>Native Americans understood themselves as stewards of the land, so we must
>approach these vehicles that we are being allowed, at their pleasure, to
>share.
>
>Just a wondering mind wandering - or a wandering mind wondering -
>
>Austin
>