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Jan Steinman
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tjet 
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Nice van and locale
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0cean
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DuncanS
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| Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2022 6:12 am Post subject: Re: Steven Hawking's Vanagon is up for auction! |
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You know, for such a smart guy, you would think VW would have put the steering wheel on the correct side of the van.  |
They did.
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0cean
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| Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2022 6:30 am Post subject: Re: Steven Hawking's Vanagon is up for auction! |
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| You know, for such a smart guy, you would think VW would have put the steering wheel on the correct side of the van. |
They did.
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Im sure who ever designed that van also drive on the wrong side of the steet also. Poor confused engineers.
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RBEmerson
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| Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2022 9:59 am Post subject: Re: Steven Hawking's Vanagon is up for auction! |
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I hear Stephen Hawking's van is up for sale, too. ;P
Edit: Fixed!
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Jan Steinman
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| Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2022 11:19 am Post subject: Re: Steven Hawking's Vanagon is up for auction! |
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| 0cean wrote: |
| You know, for such a smart guy, you would think VW would have put the steering wheel on the correct side of the van. |
What did he care? He wasn't driving!
All that mattered to Hawking was that the rear sliding door was on the curb side… which it was!  |
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Abscate
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| Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2022 1:11 pm Post subject: Re: Stephen Hawking's Vanagon is up for auction! |
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I’m surprised the didn’t make a special, singular black one for him
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RBEmerson
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| Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2022 1:13 pm Post subject: Re: Stephen Hawking's Vanagon is up for auction! |
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Problem is, he'd get in, but never be able to get out...
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Jan Steinman
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| Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2022 1:17 pm Post subject: Re: Stephen Hawking's Vanagon is up for auction! |
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| Problem is, he'd get in, but never be able to get out... |
Close! The article explains that he quit using it when he had to get a bigger wheelchair, which wouldn't fit right. |
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RBEmerson
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| Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2022 1:23 pm Post subject: Re: Stephen Hawking's Vanagon is up for auction! |
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Um, actually, that's a reference to black holes - things go in, they don't come out (well, even that's debatable, but I'm not so much as able to reliably spell astro-physicist without having a spell checker - I leave it for the heirs of Dr. Hawkings to carry on that discussion).
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campism
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| Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2022 4:55 am Post subject: Re: Stephen Hawking's Vanagon is up for auction! |
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You'd think those jail bars would help keep him in.
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| Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2022 6:24 am Post subject: Re: Stephen Hawking's Vanagon is up for auction! |
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| Problem is, he'd get in, but never be able to get out... |
Good material , there
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| Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2022 6:33 am Post subject: Re: Stephen Hawking's Vanagon is up for auction! |
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Check the fuel hoses!!!… I’m kidding, hopefully with a current MOT, that’s not a worry for any potential new owner.
Seeing the Vanagon once again used for wheelchair access was bittersweet for us as we used our ‘84 to do just that for my Wife’s Mother until she ended up permanently in a home. With no middle seat, and a foldable wheel chair ramp to get her in and out, it was a breeze compared struggling to get her out of one of our other vehicles front passenger seat with frustrating and dicey transfers that left everyone unhappy.
We had it down to a well oiled drill with the Vanagon….
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| Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2022 7:54 am Post subject: Re: Stephen Hawking's Vanagon is up for auction! |
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| How old are the tires? Just think, it may not have had the water jacket gaskets replaced yet, or a lot of other stuff that wasn't so good from the factory. Should probably figure in another $5000 in repairs because of the low miles. |
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Wasted youth
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| Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2022 8:11 am Post subject: Re: Stephen Hawking's Vanagon is up for auction! |
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Family Guy pretty much ruined Stephen Hawking for me. The cutaways of Stephen and his wife are all my mind sees whenever his name is mentioned. And now a Vanagon...
'When this van's a' rockin' don't come a' knockin'!
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RBEmerson
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| Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2022 8:30 am Post subject: Re: Stephen Hawking's Vanagon is up for auction! |
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Speaking in generally relative terms (<- sly Einsteinian humor?), this sale is on the strange side (<- no quantum physics humor meant or implied).
Is this the sale of a Caravelle by the estate of a former Cambridge prof, or is this sale of something touched by, used by... oooooohhhhh! The Great And World Renowned Stephen Hawking.
Put another way, is this the sale of a used UK version of a Caravelle Vanagon sold in the UK, or is it Buying A Piece Of History?
My guess is this rascal is headed for a museum somewhere, where it'll collect some "oooos and ahhhhs" (Actually Owned And Used By Stephen Hawking!!!), but mostly dust. Sad.
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