[Vwdiesel] How old is everyone?

[Dave]

I just turned 48. No hair left on  my head, bad knee's, but still ticking.

Dave

--- On Sun, 12/6/09, Kurt Nolte <syncronized_turbo at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> From: Kurt Nolte <syncronized_turbo at yahoo.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] How old is everyone?
> To: vwdiesel at vwfans.com
> Date: Sunday, December 6, 2009, 6:12 AM
> Travis:
> 
> Oh good! I mean, dangit, I got beat out by someone else!
> 
> I'll probably be dragging another twenty-something onto
> this list once 
> we get the Dasher squared away. Good guy, he's
> buying/paying to DD resto 
> the '80 Dasher that's been sitting in my back yard ever
> since I rescued 
> it from a crusher-trip. Wagon, good body condition, only a
> couple spots 
> of cosmetic rust on it. Perfect for hauling about his kids,
> or at least 
> better than that single-cab F250 flatbed he's selling to
> finance the 
> build... The truck's a beast, but he doesn't need it
> anymore, and the 
> call of 35+ mpg is rather strong when your daily driver
> truck tools 
> about to the tune of 11mpg... downhill... with a tail
> wind... on a good 
> day... you get the picture.
> 
> -Kurt
> 
> travis gottschalk wrote:
> > Well Kurt I have you beat by a month then. 11/11/84.
> 25 by just a month. Got started in small engines and
> anything that could be taken apart when younger. By 10 I had
> restored my first JD tractor. Since then brother and I have
> restored around 45 old JD's and have a couple pulling
> tractors that are a little too hoped up (orginal 6500 lbs,
> 35 hp, 411 cubic in - after 4100 lbs, 250 hp, 900 cubic in
> out of only 2 cylinders). They brother came back from his
> honey moon saying he bought an 80 rabbit truck diesel. My
> now wife needed a car so I bought an 81 truck for her from
> the same guy (we were do to be married within a year). Then
> the following summer I found a nice 81 rabbit car in WY and
> restored that mechanically in my apartment parking lot (had
> the apartment full of parts that wouldn't fit in the car
> like the engine and tranny and dash). Then the next summer I
> found an 04 Golf diesel which I is the same summer I put a
> 1.9 TD into the 81 car. This past summer is the first summer
> I didn't do anything major to VW's or even buy another one.
> This group has helped me in many ways. Thanks everyone. 
> > Also I would get the 1.6 TD if Ohio wasn't so far
> away. 
> > Travis G
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