Me too! My '59 resto will be making significant progress this year. See more @;
http://www.facebook.com/aircooledclassics I will be needing some radio work done, Nick. I have a period-correct Becker Europa. Mike B. vwmike333 -----Original Message----- From: Nicholas Stokes Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 7:02 PM To: Air-Cooled Volkswagen Discussion List Subject: Re: [vintagvw] Tune up now won't start I'm still here too! ...and repairing VW radios in my spare time. The value of a list is lost on many and I personally have gained significant benefit from it over the years. This winter the '70 gets a new pan because of a rusted frame head so you may be hearing more from me as the project begins. If you have radio questions or need some assistance, check out the web page and send me a note. Nick Stokes Dub~Tunes radio page: http://web.me.com/stokester/ On Jun 26, 2011, at 9:45 PM, No Quarter wrote: > Glad that Bill and I were able to help Chuck. I miss the old days of the > list where there was so much activity. I don't know if there has been a > disinterest in VWs, or people have moved to web forums, or if they just > tire > out and move on. The days of the do-it-yourselfers in the automotive > world > are winding down. There will always be a core group of guys like me who > will do it until they die or physically can't. I also think we tend to > take > internet for granted. In the early days of the listserv, there were no > web > forums and not even an web sites. It was all email lists and usenet > groups > and that was it! There are people using internet now that weren't even > born > when I first started using it. That makes me feel old! > > I don't drive my VWs as much as I used to because I want to take care of > them. I've slowly seen those VWs locally around me get wrecked, junked, > burned up, etc. Me and one other lady are the only 2 who still have our > first Beetles. She is a die-hard and knows the value of the little > beetles. > She drives more modern vehicles as a way to preserve her air-cooleds. > That's my excuse to a point. I drive this impound-yard-find Ford Contour > in > the winter salt so that I don't have to drive my VWs in it. I end up > driving it in the summer too though. Li'l Red gets driven when the > Contour > is down or I just feel like it. It's amazing how it sits for months on > end > and when I go to start it, I crank for about 15 seconds while the float > fills back up on the carb and it fires up. Just amazes me - that beetle > is > the most reliable little car I've ever had and it's never let me down. > > Sorry for the diatribe. I know you can't just do one thing forever and I > know listees move on to other things. I really value the volks I've met > on > the list in the past and often wonder what they are up to. I even > remember > some of the ones I never met, but have passed on like Scott Yuppa (plane > wreck with father in the late 90s), Jerry Jess, and Bob Hoover (type2). > With their passing, there is a huge library of information, amassed over a > lifetime, gone. > > I'm really happy for the wonderful volks I've met, but it really pains me > when they pass away because they've all meant so much to me. > > Thanks for the help everyone! Glad to see Bert, Chuck, and Bill are still > around! :) > > Erin > > _______________________________________________ > vintagvw site list > [email protected] > http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vintagvw _______________________________________________ vintagvw site list [email protected] http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vintagvw _______________________________________________ vintagvw site list [email protected] http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vintagvw
