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Subject:What is an Audi Quattro......?
From:Mark Ingalls
Date:Sun, 29 Oct 2000 02:42:39 CST

What is and Audi Quattro?  And why are they saying such terrible things
about us?  : )  : )

Peace,
Mark Ingalls

>From: JordanVw@AOL.COM
>Reply-To: JordanVw@AOL.COM
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: vanagon thread ongoing on the quattro list.....
>Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 18:53:43 EDT
>
>exerpt from a current thread ongoing by our brothers there over on the audi
>quattro list....
>chris
>--------------------------------------snip-----------------------------------
>Subj:    Re: audi 10v turbo in a VW van?
>Date:   10/28/00 4:16:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time
>From:   tquattroguy@yahoo.com (Todd Phenneger)
>Sender: quattro-admin@audifans.com
>To: lindgre@online.no (Per Lindgren), quattro@audifans.com
>
>I only know 3 people personally that have Vanagons.  And all
>three could be charachterized as Hippies.  Or Tree Huggers, or
>Outdoorsy types.  THey all fit, and are all partially true.  But
>does it matter.  I'm sure Shayne didn't mean anything bad by the
>term Hippie.  I'm a car Freak.  Yea, I'm a freak.  I freely
>admit it.  When I met Shayne, he looked like a Hippie Car Freak.
>  I dont know why everyone has to jump down someones throat every
>time a nationality or behavioral descriptive term comes up.
>Many Vanagon owners are hippies, many aren't, but probably more
>are than most car owners.  Thus, more listers probably are as
>well.
>   Ok,  Enough babbling.
>l8r
>   Todd  (BTW,  I wasn't saying you jumped down his throat, that
>was just a generalization term)
>
>--- Per Lindgren <lindgre@online.no> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Alexander van Gerbig wrote:
> >
> > >     I don't think that statement holds any negative
> > connotations of hippies,
> > > just stating that list has more of them.
> >
> > During my 2-year "membership" at the Vanagon list, I can say
> > that most of the
> > people didnt seem like hippies to me. They are more of the
> > Camper type people.
> >
> > PerL
> > 92 Cab 2,3
> >

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