[Vwdiesel] Rabbit droppings # 221 ----( Rear view mirror andChrystal bal...

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Loren,

Now owning a car that can carry cargo and keep me dry in the rain, that gets
better fuel mileage than the motorcycles I used to own does it for me.

Rob
Energy shortage?  Impossible!  In most of the developed world, the only
exception being England, electrons lterally swarm out of the ground.

----- Original Message -----
From: <LBaird119 at aol.com>
To: <vwdiesel at vwfans.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] Rabbit droppings # 221 ----( Rear view mirror
andChrystal bal...


> Why is it we could see through the hype, while so many bought it hook,
line
> and sinker?
> Maybe a quality-quantity choice made unconsciously years ago.
> Is having a lot of mediocrity better than having a small amount of
> perfection?
> If a little is good, a lot is better; this what we are being sold every
day
> on TV, in magazines, advertising, movies. GET MORE. I bought it, too,
having
> grown up American  -  until I bought a rat '62 Beetle as a second car.
>
>
>   Having grown up with nothing you'd ever call "extra" money, on an
orchard
> with a nice shop, nobody my age around, town a mile or so away and in a
> family that was "cheap."  I'm actually one of the more "extravagant" ones
> in the family!  Didn't have much TO waste, no money to buy something to
> waste and a reasonable amount of space to put "stuff" on.  As I've gotten
> to where I'm not broke every day I've found that some/many things are
> certainly worth waiting a little longer for if you can get a better VALUE!
> My first tape deck was Yamaha's second of the line.  I was married by
> then and "settled" for it because they were a couple years out of
production
> by then and this one came up for half price.  I settled but for something
> VERY good.  I do most of the same for much that I buy.
>   Heck, when I was in high school I had (still have) a '66 Mustang.  I
wanted
>
> a 6 for better mileage.  I didn't really get it so I have a turbo to
someday
> add
> to it for efficiency purposes.  Those that know the Ford 200 6 know what a
> crappy intake it has molded to the head.  I whined and thought of putting
> a diesel in it back then and gas was barely $.75/gallon.  Just money down
> the drain.  So I drove my Honda 350 as much as I could, making 50+mpg.
> Much better than the Yamaha 750's 40 or so mpg.
>   I finally got a Rabbit and then I could haul 4 people, not get wet,
carry
> luggage or groceries, stay warm and STILL get 40+mpg.  I was HAPPY!
> Don't ride the bikes much at all since.
>      Loren
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