RE: Volvo T-5

["Chadwick, John/COR/INV" <jchadwic@ch2m.com>]

I knew somebody would!

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Warren [mailto:tofer@mindspring.com]
Sent: January 04, 2000 10:51 AM
To: jettaglx@igtc.com
Subject: RE: Volvo T-5


well at least it was the BIG yellow thing and not the "little" bus to school
:0
sorry couldn't pass it up!

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~> -----Original Message-----
~> From: owner-jettaglx@igtc.com [mailto:owner-jettaglx@igtc.com]On Behalf
~> Of Chadwick, John/COR/INV
~> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 9:43 AM
~> To: 'jettaglx@igtc.com'
~> Subject: RE: Volvo T-5
~>
~>
~> I had a '71 Suburban. Green with a white top. It was my dad's, when he
~> didn't need it he would let me take it to school, WOO HOO!! All the other
~> times I would ride in this big yellow thing, oh yeah! it was a bus!!
~>
~> -----Original Message-----
~> From: Marc Gallagher [mailto:mgallagher@Langan.com]
~> Sent: January 04, 2000 10:15 AM
~> To: 'jettaglx@igtc.com'
~> Subject: RE: Volvo T-5
~>
~>
~> Must be nice to be a child of the 90's.  81' Bell Telephone
~> Chevy Chevette.
~> Bought it at an auction.  Still had the yellow and blue "racing"
~> stripes up
~> the hood, over the roof and down the back.  VERY popular.  I
~> think I hit 70
~> once.....downhill...with a 40 mph tail wind.  Wish I had MY GLX
~> back then.
~>
~> marc
~>
~> -----Original Message-----
~> From: Billy T. [mailto:btylaska@onramp.net]
~> Sent: 04 January, 2000 11:36 AM
~> To: jettaglx@igtc.com
~> Subject: Volvo T-5
~>
~>
~> Those T-5s are only good for a high 14 to low 15 in the 1/4.
~> Seems like a
~> remember reading a 15.3.  Faster than alot of Jettas, but not a GTI:)
~>
~> Had a little run with one on the freeway a while back.  Never
~> really opened
~> up,
~> so can't say it was a race.  Took the same exit as the kid, yes,
~> kid...  He
~> couldn't have been a day over 17.  Said his Mom didn't like it,
~> so as long
~> as
~> he kept his grades up, it was his.
~>
~> I got to drive an 82' Oldsmobile station wagon with a 350 small
~> block when I
~> was 17.  Got to start it with a screw driver by shorting out the
~> solenoid on
~> the starter in the HS parking lot...  I was popular.
~>
~> b-
~> Wish I had my GTI in High School.
~>