Re: [diesel_mercedes] Re: Love & Marriage & lotsa kids

Brian, I LOVE that photo!  'Reminds me of the 9-mos in '68-'69 when we lived in Rohnert Park.  We had a '64 Peugeot 404 wagon, same color as your VW.  We have a photo of it at Yosemite, too  I was eight-years-old at the time....

 

Mark in Fort Collins, CO

-----Original Message-----
From: BStromsoe
Sent: Jan 28, 2008 3:09 PM
To: diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [diesel_mercedes] Re: Love & Marriage & lotsa kids

Nate - here is the 70 Van - on this trip I asked my wife to marry me. That got me through my third year of law school. Then six kids later I sold it to a neighborhood kid cause I had to get a Dodge Maxi Van to haul the brood around.

 

http://autos.ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/diesel_mercedes/photos/view/d379?b=11

 

brian

vwnate1 <vwnate1@yahoo.com> wrote:

Was your VW ' Station Wagon ' , a Typ II (Bus) or a Typ III ?
(Squareback) .

-Nate
Brian wrote:
>
> I had 66 and 68 VW's and a 70 Wagon, but I would never buy a car
named "Rabbit" Of course that seems strange coming from someone who
thought nothing of buying "Beetles"
>
> brian
>
> vwnate1 <vwnate1@...> wrote:
> BTW : that was a _two_door_ Diesel Rabbit , and those things
didn't
> have enough power to pull a greasy string out of a cat's a$$ .
>
> BOTH my brothers bought Diesel Rabbits when they came out , they
> were such wretched little cars is why I resisted trying a Diesel
for
> so many years .
>
> Who knew ? (my brothers of course) .
>
> -Nate
> Tom wrote:
> >
> > These stories make an old man start to get nostalgic.
> >
> > Back in 1980, the network made me an offer. So I moved
from
> Boston to
> > Burbank. My driver was a 1977 non-turbo diesel Rabbit. I had
a
> hitch put on
> > it then went and got the biggest box trailer JarTran (remember
> them) would
> > rent me.
> >
> > That Rabbit hauled that JarTran trailer, with most of what
I
> owned in
> > it, accross the country from Boston to Burbank. The little
> Rabbit towing the
> > big JarTran looked like a semitrailer rig that got washed in
hot
> water and
> > shrunk down. It got laughed at every time I pulled into a
truck
> stop to fuel
> > up.
> >
> > But it came across the country, over every mountain range
(at
> about the
> > same pace as some of the big rigs). I'm sure that VW would
never
> have
> > approved of towing that size or weight of trailer. Averaged
> about 30 mpg on that
> > trip.
> >
> > That little Rabbit lasted for years after that adventure.
> >
> > If the VW could do it, I expect that our benz's can do it.
> The hitch on
> > my '81 SD is a class I, bolted through the belly pan of the
> trunk. The real
> > problem with it is my rear is too low, and the hitch drags on
> road dips and
> > curb crossings.
> >
> > Tom
>
>
>
>
>
>
> brian from la verne, ca
>
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