I'm still kicking. Been sorting out my resto cal. Life's busy but I still remember the glory days.
-Kirin On Sun., Oct. 31, 2021, 5:40 p.m. 'Ray Yoder' via VintagVW - Air Cooled Volkswagen Discussion List, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi NQ. do you still have the pic of you with the bug body on the roof? > > Sadly we also lost Bill May some time ago. Anyone hear from Jim Anderson? > > Sent from the all new AOL app for Android > <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aol.mobile.aolapp> > > On Sun, Oct 31, 2021 at 2:47 PM, Lazlo > <[email protected]> wrote: > Nice to hear from you Bruce. Can't you think of better things to think > about than me? LOL! Seriously it's nice to be remembered. > > I tried to subscribe another email address to the listserv and there is > just nothing I can do. It's just locked up really tight so I'm even > wondering if any new subscribers can get on? We might just be locked down > to whomever is here at the moment, but I'm not for sure. > > The glory days of the list seem to be in the past since and it's a shame, > but it's clearly evident why. The mass use of internet and the social > media platforms have just completely watered things down. It used to be > that if you "on the list" you were automatically in a close-knit group that > required some level of computer savvy to find and get on to. Admittedly > though, isn't it so much easier to just click 'Join Group' on facebook, > kick back, and let the information and pictures roll in? Before, you had > to send emails in to subscribe, unsubscribe (how many times did we see > 'unsubscribe' sent to the list? LOL!), and all other queries done in a > fashion that was appropriate for the level of technology we had at hand . > It's a pity shame the archived posts, to my knowledge, are gone. If John > Sroka has any of them, it would be nice to get ahold of them and spread > them around. > > I learned that last winter, Gerald Livingston succumbed to heart disease. > He was on here, but more so on the type2 listservs. We didn't find out > until many months later, but wondered why the Buskatiers website that he > hosted had gone off-line. I got to see him about a year before he died > when my wife and I went down to the gulf coast for a getaway trip. I had a > hunch it might have been the last time I'd see him alive. He had a ton of > VW and Commodore computer stuff laying around plus a ton of other > equipment. > > I never did forget Scott Yuppa who was on the list a short time and passed > away in an airplane accident with his dad Carmine (I think?). We've lost > quite a few others and it's sad that in our minds, we met these amazing > individuals who were so giving of their time and knowledge and if we were > really fortunate, we got to meet them in person - and with the passing of > time - they're gone. Bob Hoover is also missed. > > I hate to think the list has degraded into a bunch of old fogies sitting > around thinking about the past, but with such a large movement towards > social media, perhaps we should look at a side-gig of adding a vintagvw > group to facebook. I mean, it could really revitalize the list by sharing > the wit and wisdom of the old-timers with any new-comers who might be > interested. I always did prefer the email aspect as it was fast and like > reading a good book. Like radio was prior to TV - the pictures in our > heads were removed once we could see who was talking. I'm on facebook, but > I really limit what I share on there and it seems that it's a very > successful surveillance machine and that fact alone makes me not like it. > > Oddly enough, since I don't change easily with time, I still carry around > a 2003 Motorola V60s cell-phone which Verizon has continued to allow to > operate on their towers. It fits in my bib pocket quite nicely and is loud > enough to be heard over the saw at work - even while doing a full rip on a > board. I had a truck driver this past week say, "Is that a cell phone?" > It struck me that is now an old term. Today it's called a smartphone. I > own several smartphones and use them when I travel, but for the day to day > monotony of life - it's what I like. Old cars are the same way - they > might not get as good of mileage and might not have all the modern > conveniences, but there is a certain amount of freedom one gains by > sticking with the familiar, the easily repaired, and something within your > skill level to fix and maintain. My V60 has had it's motherboard dropped > into a new shell 7 to 10 times at this point. I take the phone apart, fix > it, and it keeps right on working. Even soldering the internal antenna > connector back on is something I've gotten good at. > > Anyway, concerning the listserv at present. I found this archive: > https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ so that might > provide some way to look for old posts. At this point though, it seems we > are invisible list not easily accessible. That ended with the demise of > the old sjsu server of years gone by. > > I fully expect that we will see some frantic messages requesting to > unsubscribe from those who forgot they were subbed because it's been so > long since they joined. It just kind of goes with the territory when > suddenly a big ol' post comes through the email that one isn't used to > seeing. > > I guess that's it for now. I'll sit back and see what everyone else has > to say. > > NQ > > > > > On Sun, Oct 31, 2021 at 1:16 PM 'Bruce Howard' via VintagVW - Air Cooled > Volkswagen Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm still here. Was thinking about you the other day, NQ. > > Still no VW but I have my eye on a field Ghia. Been watching a lot of Mike > FN Garage on YouTube. Made me miss the community. > > I'm in Massachusetts now, living in a toy hauler, sans toy, working a > Lockheed Martin g contract. Fam is still in TX and FL. > > Later, > VWguyBruce > ------------------------------ > *From:* [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf > of Lazlo <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Sunday, October 31, 2021 2:11:58 PM > *To:* [email protected] <[email protected]> > *Subject:* [vintagvw] Is the list still active? > > Hi gang - just going through some old messages in my little-used gmail > account and I saw some VintagVW messages. Are we still live or are we in > the post-mortem throws of death? 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