Vannin' Community and Forums Forums General Discussion Introduce Yourself..... Howdy from Mayberry

I live in Mount Airy, NC AKA Mayberry. I have had a long history with vans, and finally decided to check out a forum dedicated to them. I had a VW bus in high school, and after graduating I lived in a 80 Chevy van. After about a year, I sold it to buy another VW and lived in that for about a year. I have had several VW's since, as well as an 84 Econoline extended van. Now I have a 69 Econoline to tinker on. Hopefully I will be able to contribute in some way on here and look forward to learning from the van gurus here.

to the site from Pittsburgh!

Welcome from Florida

Welcome! Glad to have you.

Welcome from San Diego. Love that body style. Pics are always appreciated.

Welcome.

I've had a few VW vans myself.
Only one that was ever a daily driver, though.
They were all love/hate relationships. LOL

Your username is cool.

I will get some pics this weekend. Super solid van. I found myself needlessly impressed with the side step actuated by the door linkage. Cool touch.

As for the name, thank you. That is my name on all forums that I participate on. It was a nickname that stuck many years ago when I was at an Ozzfest in Charlotte. 2001, and the show happened to fall on Geezer's birthday. I made friends with some of the festival employees and was invited to go on the tour as an employee. I called my job and requested an extended vacation, and left town the next night. I was not quite as rough as most of the workers, but was perhaps a bit more "spacey", and wound up being described as an Ozzfest cosmonaut. And was Ozzmonaut to most of the festies for the months I remained with the tour.

Cool story.
I use mine everywhere too.
I've been Rusty Pancelode since '98. LOL

Before that a lot of folks called me Farley, because I lived in a van down by the river. James River in Richmond, VA. LOL