Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 13:00:27 -0700
Reply-To: bernie <1234bjs@GMAIL.COM>
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From: bernie <1234bjs@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Sad Day
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Yes, there is something very "Stephen King" or "Rod Serling" about the
vanagon/owner relationship..
Yes indeed!
On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 12:27 PM, Steven Johnson <sjohnso2000@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Yes, there is something very "Stephen King" or "Rod Serling" about the
> vanagon/owner relationship.....
>
> Steven
> 91 Westy
>
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 3:23 PM, bernie <1234bjs@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Had mine sold to a couple who looked at mine about 4 years ago. They said
>> yes to full price. I apologized but said I needed a night to come to terms
>> with this and fully consider to part with Grumps. I phoned them later that
>> night and said "I'm so sorry but I can't do this".
>> It just felt so wrong.
>> Grumps and I have put on many miles since then.
>> He wasn't happy that I even considered it and it was touch and go for
>> awhile there.
>> I'm a lifer. Not everybody is but I am.
>> Having said that last month was almost the end of the road for this
>> cowboy. I was at a VW campout at Maple Valley WA. I walked into town and
>> approached traffic lights and pressed for walk button. As I pressed the
>> walk button I had the strangest sensation of disorientation.
>> Felt like something out of sync and a strange sense of unease. Something
>> felt very wrong but I did not know what.
>> The light changed to walk.
>> I hesitated and looked for traffic turning left.
>> They was none however I preceded more slowly than I usually would.
>> I took two steps and would never have taken a third. A woman in a half
>> ton truck turned toward me at a high rate of speed. I caught sight at last
>> second and backed away. I was shaken and had to return to light to compose
>> myself. I would have left that campout in a box had she hit me. Sometimes
>> the sixth sense or whatever you want to call is a lifesaver. It was for me.
>>
>> I digress from the issue at hand Grumps and I have so much shared
>> experience that to consider a parting of the ways is not thinkable. That
>> day will come and with my 70th birthday this year it has to be getting
>> closer.
>> However I think he keeps me younger and I try to keep him in best shape
>> possible. We are in it together. As one bus pilot shared with me "my bus
>> will see me out".
>>
>>
>> Bernie
>> Vancouver
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 10:39 AM, Steven Johnson <sjohnso2000@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> It's a slippery slope. First a VW bug, then a camper, now a Sprinter?
>>> What next?
>>> A class A? The trend is not good....
>>>
>>> Enjoy your Sprinter,
>>>
>>> Steven
>>> 91 Westy
>>>
>>> On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 10:45 PM, . <killer.jupiter@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Hell... Vanagon California.
>>> >
>>> > -----Original Message-----
>>> > From: "Jim Arnott" <jrasite@EONI.COM>
>>> > Sent: 8/21/2016 7:40 PM
>>> > To: "vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM" <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
>>> > Subject: Re: Sad Day
>>> >
>>> > Somebody has to say it:
>>> >
>>> > You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
>>> >
>>> > > On Aug 21, 2016, at 12:00 PM, Tim Mc Dermott <h2oboxer@VERIZON.NET>
>>> > wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > > Today is a sad day in my household. I just sold my Vanagon, which I
>>> have
>>> > owned for 9 years to a very nice gentleman from Ohio. He came all the
>>> way
>>> > to Long Island to pick it up. I hope that he gets it back on the road
>>> and
>>> > enjoys the heck out of it.
>>> > > Last year I sold my other Vanagon that I owned since 1994.
>>> > Unfortunately, that vehicle was Beyond repair, in my estimation, but
>>> > someday that too may see new life.
>>> > > So it is the first time since 1975 when I owned my first Beetle, a
>>> Baja
>>> > Bug, that there has not been a VW in the McDermott household.
>>> > > I recently purchased a Sprinter that , I hope, will bring as much joy
>>> > and travels around our land as my beloved VW's had.
>>> > >
>>> > > I have been on the Vanagon list since almost the beginning, but not
>>> as
>>> > vocal as most.
>>> > > Thanks to you all for you encouragement and words of wisdom.
>>> > >
>>> > > Hope to see some of you out on the road.
>>> > >
>>> > > Tim and Carol McDermott
>>> >
>>>
>>
>>
>
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