Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 20:14:21 -0800
Reply-To: Zoltan <zol@FOXINTERNET.NET>
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From: Zoltan <zol@FOXINTERNET.NET>
Subject: CORY, Re: Car tastes of our teenagers
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I could not imagine a better happy ending to your lovely story.
That '86 was the one that was in the dealer's yard and you fixed it up
yourself?
Zoltan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cory Zumbrennen" <cz137@HOME.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 5:32 PM
Subject: Re: Car tastes of our teenagers
> It took me 5 yearsfrom when I got my licence to when I bought my first
> Westfalia, a white '86. I bought a white '81 Jetta a few months before I
> got my license and drove it until I graduated from High School. At which
> point my parents traded me the Jetta for a Red GTI 16v as a graduation
> present. They *gave* the Jetta to my then barely 16 year old sister, who
> proceeded to total the car the next week!
>
> While in college I thought that the Nissan Pathfinder was as cool as can
be,
> until I was on my second extended summer road trip and thought to myself
> that there must be a better car to travel, live, and camp out of! Of
course
> when I checked blue book values I thought that I would get a nice '86-'87
> Syncro Westy for $5K-$6K!! Hahahahahahaha! Not a chance. So when I was
21
> I bought a 2WD Westy that had apparently been abandoned in the back of my
> local Nissan dealer.
>
> Two years later, with a lot of help from this list I had finally managed
an
> '86 Syncro Westy. Of course I have never had a Vanagon as my only form of
> transport, I have always had some fast little VW as the Westy's sidekick.
>
> So now finally at 26 I have reached my VW utopia. A sweet black '95 GTI
> VR6, and an even sweeter burgundy '90 Syncro Westfalia with all the
> trimmings:-)
>
> I just wanted to share.....I thought y'all might understand. Most people
> laugh at me:-)
>
> Cory
>
>
>
> > Sam W wrote:
> > >> We'll see what puberty does for his car
> > >> tastes.
> > >>
> > >> Sam Walters
> > >> '84 Vanagon, 174k
> > >> '89 Syncro, 176 k
> > >> 11 year old Alex, future driver
> >
> > Gary S wrote:
> > > Since I agree with the theory that all teenagers go through a period
of
> > > temporary insanity (Even, no make that especially me. Somehow I
> survived.),
> > > I am thinking that my 13 year old son will have to satisfy himself
with
> an
> > > old tank. I'm thinking Checker Marathon myself...
> >
> > My comments:
> >
> > As my twin fifteen year old boys turn sixteen within weeks, I am keenly
> > aware of how "uncool" the Vans are. They are almost equally dismayed
with
> > my choice of an '81 diesel Rabbit as 'their' car (augmented by my "sits
in
> > the alley and gets used as a truck S-10). They will follow in the
> > footsteps/tire tracks of their two older brothers who were forced to
> endure
> > econobox junkers until their driving and maintenance skills warranted
step
> > up next cars. Son # 1 now has a beautiful '98 VR6 GTI and son #2 drives
a
> > pristine '92 Jetta and has a '68 Karmaan Ghia as a keeper. Both of them
> > learned about cars through a series of object lessons and over several
> years
> > of servitude to their econobox beginnings. The older siblings both admit
> > that the utility of the vans is beginning to grow on them...particularly
> for
> > moving and weekend camping.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Stephen Steele
> > Chillicothe OH
> > '91 Caravelle Hans
> > '84 Westfalia Fritz or Sunny?
> >
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