Sheesh, John. You bought your first car 11 years before I was BORN. Remind me to begin all my future e-mail to you with "Sir".
If you like, I can also type them all in caps SO YOU CAN HEAR ME. <VBG> Paul M. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John" <[email protected]> To: "Papermodels II" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 2:32 PM Subject: [Papermodels II 39036] Re: What I'm working on... > > Ah--it's old VW reminiscing time. Bought my first car for $1700, a new > '57 VW Bug--in '57, of course. My new wife and I loved it, but it was > not a good car for camping, so in a year we traded it in for new '58 > VW Microbus. Paid $2800. Drove that thing for 15 years and about > 250,000 miles, periodically dropping the engine, taking it into the > house, and rebuilding it. The last time it quit on us we said enough > is enough. Sold it, not running, to a kid for $500. > > Now we call them the "good old days". Then we called them "these > trying times." > > John Freeman > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Papermodels?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
