28 May
2004
28 May
'04
7:36 p.m.
On Fri, 28 May 2004, Joe R. wrote:
Boy, if that isn't the pot calling the kettle
black! My first VW was a
'58 chassis with a '63 engine and a Myer's Manx body. Now how many of you
remember THAT?
Joe
Well, it wasn't mine - belonged to a cohort at work - but the
first one that I ever drove was a well thrashed '47 bug replete
with 'crash box'. That was in about '55, I think. It was a real
gas!
- don
At 06:03 PM 5/28/04 -0400, you wrote:
There's only one problem with Joe's story.
There were *no* VWs when he was
a kid.
Glen
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On Thu, 27 May 2004, Joe R. wrote:
> LOL! I'd forgotten about that. When I was a kid a gator parked itself
> under my neighbor's VW. The neighbor came out and found it and tried to
> chase it off with a broom. The gator stood up on all four legs and
picked
> up the VW and headed for a nearby lake with
the VW on it's back! Then
the
> neighbor had to run in front of the gator
and try to chase it back into
the
yard to
keep from losing the VW! Needless to say, things got pretty
exciting for a while!
That's the funniest thing I've herad all day (it's still early though).
Too bad there wasn't a video camera around.
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