[Vwdiesel] How old is everyone?

[Patrick Dolan]

I turned 60 this month, and entered my 45th year as a VW owner/enthusiast.  I have either owned, bought, sold, fixed, or otherwise VW diesels since the very first copper coloured '77 (all of the introductory cars in Canada were this colour and deluxe trim) rolled accross my showroom floor.  Our eldest daughter is also a dedicated VW diesel person - since she is now a grad student looking for the molecules of canola-based bio-D that provide it's excellent lubricity.

----- Original Message -----
From: Dave <vwzoo at yahoo.com>
Date: Sunday, December 6, 2009 6:23 am
Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] How old is everyone?

> 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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