“Who names their kid Cricket”

Actually, now that I think about it, the bumpers/wheels/hubcaps were more of light beige white than white, and we did have much bigger mirrors. Don’t know if that was an option at the dealership, or if he put them on after he bought it, I was only 0 years old when he bought it. Also, in spite of not being a camper, it…

CR called it dangerous, too. 0-60 in thirty seconds is what sticks in my mind from back then.

The final straw for me is that you used to be able to go to someone’s account to approve their message, but about two weeks ago, they stopped that. I mean, if they want to take out the comment section like Deadspin, why don’t they just do it, instead of sabotaging it?

I cant find the post where you replied to me about diesels. I looked it up on the samba board. 0-60 in 30 seconds for a Vanagon D is considered normal.. I remember when C and D called this dangerous.

I’ll be over 100, so if I start showing side affects in 50 years I’ll either be dead or too senile to notice.

Sounds about right. I mean, our 1973 type II had 12 more horsepower, iirc, I don’t know if it’s slower than an older type II like our 1964, but you’d fall asleep before a 0-60 run was completed either way. The 1964's top speed was about 60 mph or less fully loaded for camping. Can’t remember what the Dasher diesel’s…

Kinja is so messed up. I can’t find and approve your reply to me, but I could find two of your other posts, which I approved. Bizarre and annoying.

Surprise, I was right. It was just a guess. But I’ve seen enough of your posts that I’m not really surprised.

That diesel wasn’t powerful enough for a Dasher(We had one for a year until it blew up), certainly not enough for a Vanagon. IIRC, the EPA on it was 29/29* leading CR to comment the engine was pretty much working full bore all the time.

Yeah, if he was going to to get a gowesty engine, he should have got the 2.7, I’m guessing with that, it could keep up with traffic and not get in everyone’s way. 

The reason the list of repairs is longer than a CVS receipt is that you’d have be on drugs to buy it!

If it was a Westfalia, maybe, but as just a van, get a used Honda or Toyota that’s a lot newer, faster, fuel efficient and safer.

By “unique” driving experience, you mean poor. We had 2 Type II’s for 18 or so years growing up, a 1964 bare bones bus, and a 1973 Westfalia. The 1973 sucked a lot less, but it still sucked. It’s what I learned to drive on.

Just as valuable as your posts on the subject.

Don’t forget Trump won!

Not sure if that’s a good thing or not.

Blunt and Hawley over McCaskill and Kander prove what a shithole state we have become, voting grifters in over people who probably also grift that will at least mostly do the right thing.

True, but they rarely die or even hospitalized. People that die or get effed up by Covid are almost entirely un vaccinated.

Pathetic. In spite of MO being an absolute shithole state, once they actually set up for the vaccine, it’s worked very smoothly. I got vaccinated months ago, and was in and out in less than 20 minutes for both shots in Bridgeton(St. Louis County).