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calvinater
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 Posted: Sat May 18, 2019 7:00 pm Post subject: Re: New Jersey VW folks-Post here. |
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Grew up in Hopewell ( remember Lindbergh )
Fled to Vermont when kids came, didn't want to raise mall rats.
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my59
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| Posted: Sun May 19, 2019 5:00 am Post subject: Re: New Jersey VW folks-Post here. |
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Hometown now: Fanwood NJ
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Lived there back in the 70's.
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obus
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6T5 square
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been living in the pines of Medford for the past 15 years or so. anytime I need to go to a VW event, its at least a 45 minute drive. But it is quiet and I can see all the stars at night so I guess life is good.
Lets not talk about taxes, ok?
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obus
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my59
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| Posted: Mon May 20, 2019 9:00 pm Post subject: Re: New Jersey VW folks-Post here. |
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Hometown now: Fanwood NJ
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In Fanwood? |
In Fanwood, Arlene Ct. Drove a Corvair vert and then a MG Midget while most of my friends were rolling late 60's beetles. After I moved away in the early 80's I had a friend's parents who would leave their split bus at Newark airport so I could fly in and drive down to Atlantic Highlands to go sail on a Hobie cat. fun times.
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my59: Well son, my grandfather died before I got to drive it, so does that answer your question?
our79: sunroof bus w/camper interior and 2.0 FI
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cyclehobby
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| Posted: Tue May 21, 2019 7:03 am Post subject: Re: New Jersey VW folks-Post here. |
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I have lived in Bergen County, NJ all of my life. Not a bad place to live, really. Though I've seen many other areas of the country in my travels, no place is perfect in every way. There will always be a give and take.
Not wanting to jump down a rabbit hole, I'll just say I could "give" up NJ winters and taxes. But other than that, it's where my family and friends are, so it's home.
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obus
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| Posted: Thu May 23, 2019 4:59 am Post subject: Re: New Jersey VW folks-Post here. |
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Hometown now: Fanwood NJ
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In Fanwood? |
In Fanwood, Arlene Ct. Drove a Corvair vert and then a MG Midget while most of my friends were rolling late 60's beetles. After I moved away in the early 80's I had a friend's parents who would leave their split bus at Newark airport so I could fly in and drive down to Atlantic Highlands to go sail on a Hobie cat. fun times. |
Wow!! That crazy! i was there from 2006-2016. I could have walked to Arlene Ct from my house on Waldon road!! When i used to tell people i lived in Fanwood they would say "where?" I'm back down the shore where i grew up now
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stevo
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| Posted: Fri May 09, 2025 8:42 pm Post subject: Re: New Jersey VW folks-Post here. |
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I found this thread looking for any mention of Specialty Motors, and said to myself wtf, is there even a reference to Atlantic City on this site. I was born in Atlantic City on the green property - Pacific Avenue. Around that time my father bought a red, bullet blinker panel brand new from Specialty followed by hand-painted logos. I never lived in Atlantic City, but went there for high school. I was raised Downbeach [Ventnor, Margate] and mostly in Brigantine. When I lived in Brigantine it was lots better than Mayberry. One drawbridge in, same bridge out. One traffic light essentially for the grade school, and the only meaningful gambling was the card game at my father's shop. No movie theater nor fast-food restaurants, a couple of bars and a bowling alley.
I much preferred the islands before legalized gambling. After graduating Rutgers, New Brunswick I took one last look at the fading shit hole while taking a job as a doorman at the Playboy Hotel & Casino. In the fall I continued school in NYC, then headed west until I ran out of land.
Now in Eugene, Oregon with 65 standard, 68 doublecab, 69 sunroof Riviera, 70 Westy.
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NJ John
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Born in Rahway, NJ. Lived in Woodbridge mostly. Now in northern Maryland, so about 2 hours away from friends and family.
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stevo
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2025 5:36 pm Post subject: Re: New Jersey VW folks-Post here. |
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| Brigantine is still nice from what i have heard. I have been to Ernest and Son in brigantine for deli sandwiches/hoagies/subs whatever you want to call them. Good stuff |
Where I'm from that'd be subs. I'm certain it is nice. Just that so many homes have been crushed by the giant Monty Python foot, making way for Architectural Digest centerfolds and subsequent taxes. When I lived there the main places to go were Circle Tavern [giant chain drugstore which also knocked out the First National Bank of South Jersey and the Island Diner], Beach Bar [condos], and the Rod N' Reel {Hurricane Sandy, RIP]. Not sure at all where people go for their thirty-five cent draft Roll N Rock, Ballentine, or Schlitz ...maybe the VFW. But the beach and bay cannot change. I wonder what the beach badge fee is these days.
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NJ John
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Jersey, where you pay to go on the beach! You know, while your down the shore. In Maryland, they say โgoing down the oceanโ. I guess because it usually means going to Ocean City.
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