PROPHECY: End of the Ford Econoline Marks a New Era for Great American Vans
Rebecca unblocked me from my Friends List.
I don't know... I just sensed it...
I hadn't been looking at my Messages where it shows if someone is blocked. When someone blocks you on Facebook, their Face Plate image is blotted out. So Rebecca must have done it in the last 24 hours because I remember browsing all the people who had blocked me for the last 4 years.
It could be that Conscious Rebecca somehow felt it. She may have sensed it unconsciously that I was grieving over her.
The interesting part is that her choice to unblock me on Facebook aligns with the plane crash in Iowa at that air show. I'm 95% sure that Rebecca doesn't pay attention to the news. She doesn't pay attention or realize when she's unconsciously doing something that is timed or set to happen in the news.
I sometimes even wonder if she ever picked up on what was going on with Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, Chief Justice John Roberts, or what happened with Crystal Harris and Hugh Hefner.
I was taking note of what happened with the Econoline Van. I had a couple hours earlier that my stepdad and I were talking about cars, which included his 2005 truck he bought on 12/14 of 2005 when Alabama became a state.
We originally had a van purchased in 1984. It was because my stepdad liked my Uncle Tom's van. So he went and purchased an orange Econoline Van.
The License Plate was HUT.
HU-T = 8/21 Female = Hawaiian Female
It was bought by my mom's friend Libby.
L(IBB)Y = LY with IBB insde = 12/25 with 922 inside
12/25 = Christ
9/22 = Laura Vandervoort = Supergirl
Rebecca has a Supergirl tag.
The color was Orange, which is Red + Yellow. It's red for Rebecca as a redhead and Yellow for the Sun. I once told Rebecca that the name Lara, as Superman's mother, is really 12/6 x ALA.
That 12/6 means the name Rebecca while ALA is Alabama where Rebecca is from.
I miss Rebecca. I wish I could tell her about my mom who is writing about my grandmother. I once told Rebecca that regardless of how she feels about me, she's still part of my family.
She belongs to my Aunt who is the older sister of my mom. My mom is the second oldest. I told Rebecca that I suspected that the reason why that part of my Family Tree has Alabama tags is because Rebecca was the first person to cross over into the Psychic Field.
Rebecca really did understand how the Psychic Field worked and the stuff I told her. Well... She believe it more than anyone else did.
What's really touching, but sad, is that I know that Rebecca tried.
For whatever people think happened, I know that Rebecca really tried. There's this part of my that felt really sorry Rebecca. I once told her that I complained to the Subconscious Collective.
I told them it wasn't fair that I have to be the one to deliver the bad knews of how Rebecca keeps tripping over things. I told them it wasn't fair that I have to be the one to get on her case about that stuff.
Imagine where you love someone very much, but you have to be the one to tell them they screwed up and it got someone injured and killed.
What do you say to that?
I couldn't take it anymore in 2/7 of 2012. I just couldn't stand by and let Rebecca leak into the Psychic Field putting people in harm's way. I just couldn't live like that. It was like being pinned against the wall where you care about someone, but you have a duty to protect people and keep them out of harm's way.
So I made a choice...
I knew she wasn't going to get rid of Aaron, so I made the choice and left. It looks like I just flat out ditched her, but it wasn't like that.
I loved her very much. I cried for days after I got rid of her. That was the whole Abraham theme about sacrificing the son Isaac.
I bet Rebecca didn't even realize that Hurricane Isaac was linked to her because the wife of Isaac in the Bible was Rebecca.
That was not just any Hurricane that barreled through Louisiana. I kept telling Rebecca that we move things in the news.
That whole thing with Clint Eastwood talking to an empty chair representing President Barack Obama was for Alabama.
(O)bama = (ALA)bama
If you subtract President Obamas birthday 8/4 from the wife Michelle Obama born 1/17, it is 7/-13. That's 7/13 for Alabama. It's an Alabama tag.
Rebecca's brain clot was affecting her memory. She was comparing herself to the movie "50 First Dates." She doesn't realize it's about her.
Drew Barrymore, as Lucy is born 2/22.
Adam Sandler is born 9/9.
9/9 - 2/22 = 7/-13
You see that same 7/-13 pop up again. It's talking about Rebecca's memory that got turned into Swiss cheese. She doesn't remember what happened.
Her brain got so messed up with her memory that she probably forgot a lot of the things I told her and explained to her.
I have to say that I'm hurt. Not in a vindictive way, but she abanbonded me.
Sure, people can claim that I "abandoned" her on 2/7 of 2012, but I left for good reason. People were getting hurt and killed over her. I had to leave.
I loved Rebecca very much, but despite being a Virgin and how much I cared deeply for her, letting other people die just so I could have Rebecca in my life was too high a price.
I didn't want to look in the mirror each morning knowing that people lost their lives just so that I could have Rebecca in my life. Sure, I'm lonely, but I'd rather be lonely and have my integrity than know that other people lost their lives just so I could be happy.
Not even Rebecca is worth that. She never knew how much I loved her. That's why it's so sad that she didn't see what happened. That's why the song "Take a Bow" by Madonna was released on 12/6 meaning the name Rebecca.
It's a song that sings about how Rebecca played her part well. She followed it to a tee not realizing she was being manipulated. She couldn't see past the illusion.
She couldn't see past the illusion with Tar on Second Life with his 2/6 birthday for Massachusetts as a state date. I had a Superman Software Program with her as Lois Lane and she couldn't even see that Tar had the lyrics from "Kryptonite" by 3 Doors Down on his description.
It was right in front of her face.
She couldn't see that her 4/20 Hitler tag aligned with Tar's 2/6 date for Eva Braun as the wife of Hitler. Her German heritage aligned with the Holocaust where her voluntarily decision to axe me out of her life out of fiery anger was the equivalent of incinerating Je(W)s.
Je(W)s = Je(SU)s when W = SU
W = M upside down
M = 13th Letter = 13th State = Rhode Island = 5/29
SU = Non-US
W-SU = M-US
That's how bad it was. Even then, Rebecca doesn't realize how much I loved her and how I covered for her. I defended her. I covered up for her mess. She doesn't realize how bad of a mess she made, and I cleaned it up.
The timing was so sad. I really wanted the care package and teddy bear that Rebecca was going to send me so that I'd have something from her. But then she was gone just like that. It was just like that episode of "Touch" where the wife of Martin Bohm and mother of Jake died in the 9/11 attack.
I still keep Rebecca's voice mail to me dated 9/11 of 2011 because it's all I have left of her. I would listen to it when I was sad.
I never delete any of her text messages. I just keep it on my phone even though no one else calls me.
I just watch all the redheads pass by. All the 10/31 tags. I talk to Subconscious Rebecca. It's just her and Subconscious Scott. Scott was the male who left. Rebecca was the female who left.
Scott is related to Daniel Boone born 11/2 for North Dakota and South Dakota. The wife was Rebecca Boone born 1/9 for Connecticut.
Wisconsin currently has Governor Scott Walker born 11/2 and the Lieutenant Governor is Rebekah Klievitch. It's Cleavage for breasts. Rebecca got breast implants.
That whole scandal with Rupert Murdoch and the News of the World was Rebekah as well.
It's that same Rupert tag with Kristen Stewart with Rupert Sanders. Sanders is the last name of Supergirl 3 who was one of the previous Supergirls.
Everything is like clockwork now. Things always fit into place nowadays. If people actually just paid attention to the way numbers flow through me, they'd find that I know what I'm talking about.
The last comment I sent to Rebecca on Facebook was on 4/17 of 2012. It was regarding "Joyride" by Roxette because Rebecca's middle name is Joy. I told her about the lyrics talking about the "Child of the Sun."
It was where Rebecca got a chance to see how the Sun in our solar system is alive. I told her it was speaking to her. When she turned her back on me, she was turning her back on the Earth and the Sun whom I was representing.
That's where this Robert Pattinson Vampire theme comes in. Rebecca has a Robert tag. Vampires can't stand the light of the Sun. It hurts their S/Kin (Superman Kin).
That's why Rebecca transformed into that Robert Pat-T in S-On Vampire as an outcast of the Sun. She can't walk in the Sun without feeling its blaze on her.
Do you know how bad it is when you defy the Sun in the sky?
It's bad. Like really bad. I tried to text Rebecca telling her not to do it. I tried to tell her. Dont do it. I knew it was going to be bad. However, she was blinded by her anger, I guess.
She couldn't see that I wouldn't tell her not to see someone or stay away from a guy without good reason. When people are dying or getting killed, that's good reason.
I tried to tell her that I don't mess around with stuff like that because if you do, you can have it blow up in your face. I've learned over the last 8 years that you don't fiddle with things.
I swore to her I wouldn't tell her to stay away from Tar just for petty jealousy. The Subconscious Collective can read your mind. They're good at fiddling with things where if you act selfishly, it will blow up in your face.
That's what happened with Rebecca. She didn't realize that when she cut me off the way she did on 4/18 of 2012, she did just like in "Harry Potter" where she formed "Horcrux."
A Horcrux is when there's a bond or a link. Rebecca, like Lord Voldemort, tried to axe me or destroy me. When she tried to strike me down, Subconscious Rebecca shielded me with love.
Subconscious Rebecca put herself between me and Conscious Rebecca.
If you do your research on Harry Potter, you'll find that the baby used for Harry Potter is born 12/14 for Alabama.
You'll also find that Lily and James Potter, as the parents, died on 10/31 or Halloween on Rebecca's birthday.
It's Lord Voldemort as LV for Las Vegas. Ralph Fiennes is born 12/22 as the 12th and 22nd Letters as LV.
It's all there. However, Rebecca wasn't watching. She wasn't paying attention. People never do.
To be honset, I'm exhausted. I'm tired of being right all the time. It gets old. You just wish people would look more rather than following their prejudices.
I love Rebecca, but it still hurts always being the one kicked out of people's lives. I told Rebecca of how I get treated like a stray dog that nobody wants.
You try to do the right thing by protecting people from getting injured and killed, and you end up being the one that gets ditched.
The one thing I keep learning the hard way is that you can't depend on people. They abandon you. The only person you can rely on is yourself.
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End of the Ford Econoline Marks a New Era for Great American Vans
By Jamie Lincoln Kitman | Motoramic - Fri, Aug 31, 2012 4:45 PM EDT
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If you ever wanted to really get to know a Ford E-Series van, better hurry. Because after a long - check that, absurdly long - run, it's finally retirement time for America's most famous and most geriatric hauler; take a bow, you body-on-frame, mostly V-8 people mover. It's so old it always looks like it's starring in some '70s Quinn Martin production or an episode of Dragnet.
When the former Econoline receives a gold watch for service at the end of the 2013 model year, Ford will finally begin building for the American market the unibody Transit van they sell in Europe and around the world. It's a big deal, and although many of us can't help holding a sentimental, snuggly soft spot for the Econoline, the cue for this old stager to shuffle off comes not a nanosecond too soon.
Like the upcoming Chrysler Ram vans, based on a couple of Fiat's home-market schleppers, the Doblo and the Ducato, Ford's Transit launch in the U.S. is what counts for meaningful progress along the slow road to a more rational U.S. fleet. Here's why:
What stands out in this look back is a remarkable reluctance to move beyond a formula that works. While European buyers have always been able to look forward to new models every five or six years, the American van buyer has had to wait dozens of years and usually more for the sorts of big improvements only a redesign with the latest thinking and technology can bring. In the same time frame as we've gotten to know, for instance, eleven complete redesigns of the Toyota Corolla, pens have been lifted extensively but two or three times in service of the vans of the formerly Big Three since the '60s.
One central irony: Faced with serious competition abroad, American companies started offering better vans to their customers outside the United States in the '60s and '70s, with great strides made every decade since. But here at home, competition was stayed, as was progress. Van design, like a woolly mammoth in a late 1960s ice floe, was frozen in time as the companies collectively appear to have agreed, with the willing assent of the federal government at its bipartisan best, to call a truce amongst them selves, skip a development cycle or three, and collectively supply their countrymen with less than the best vans known to man.
It was as if we Americans were suddenly third-world citizens, offered an inferior product at a greater profit to the sellers, who were in this ironic instance, our countrymen. Like consumers in less developed lands, the choices in the U.S. market were substandard and limited, because, basically, they could get away with it, just like in less privileged lands.
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Remember the vanning craze of the 1970s? Long before families were being directed to profligate, cheap-to-build SUVs by Detroit, they were being invited, in an experimental sort of way, to get into thirsty, cheap-to-build vans as family transport and personal party palaces, the flames of desire stoked by automakers who knew easy money when they saw it. Only later when it emerged that SUV desire was much easier to flame than van lust, did the van start returning more fully to its utilitarian roots, which thankfully for the industry (or not) required it to work and invest even less.
One way Detroit helped itself maintain the status quo in van-dom for so long was to lobby for exemptions from federal passenger car safety and emissions standards for vans, much like early SUVs enjoyed. This allowed superannuated van designs to soldier quite a bit further down the road than they ought to have. And while they were doing so, Ford, GM and Chrysler were making the funny money that comes only rarely in corporate life when you have a product that runs forever, with its capital costs fully amortized, development and production lines fully paid for and a customer base that keeps turning out to buy it.
The appeal is obvious, but to sell an ancient product with a straight face, you need to know you won't have any competition. The customer has to need you, and having virtually no other choice than you, history tells us, helps. It really does.
There may not be enough proof to meet the legal standard for proving the elements of felony collusion - although there might -- but how else do you explain the smart and talented engineers of some of America's biggest industrial corporations managing to go dozens of years without redesigning their vans, in the ways you would have wanted to, for reasons of safety, efficiency, environmental impact and utility?
Where the average American van continues to this day to rely upon the fossilized body-on-frame structure the industry was born building, true to its roots in the wagon and horse-drawn carriage trade, the average European or Japanese offering by the 1980s was lighter, and more space and fuel-efficient. Owing to the use of tall, unit-body construction and smaller, primarily diesel, engines, it was of equal or superior practicality.
My own van conversion experience occurred when we bought a Freightliner Sprinter in 2002. As a manager of touring rock bands, I was intimately familiar with Detroit's offerings and had come to rely exclusively on Econolines, which were about as good as it got, but thirsty, never more so than in the 10-12-mile-per-gallon gasoline-powered V-10 Econolines that came out in the late '90s. Enter the Sprinter a few years later along with its standard five-cylinder diesel that got us 27 mpg while towing - in a duallie Sprinter no less. Compared to the Ford, the Sprinter was quicker, had a bigger payload, could tow as much, rode better, had a dramatically smaller turning circle and you could stand up in its load area. What was not to like? This is what we vannists were missing in America.
Unfortunately, the Sprinter, which replaced the bargain basement Dodge van in the DaimlerChrysler era, was and is on the expensive side; still worth it to many, but allowing Ford and GM to contentedly carry on peddling their traditional fare, embarrassed though they ought to have been, selling many hundreds of thousands of vans each year owing to price, habit and misguided brand loyalty.
Not surprisingly, the American industry worked hard to create the conditions for sumptuous decades of technical stasis in the van realm, lobbying for tariffs that served as barriers to foreign competition. Safety and emission exemptions and import duties completed the sweep of the fortuitous pre-condition table as reliably unfavorable exchange rates also worked against imported machinery. Japan's growing automotive powerhouses, making huge bank selling cars in America, and fearing retaliation in the form of sales quotas, didn't dare work the van or full-sized pickup angle.
Oddly enough, when the Japanese firms recently did begin building trucks here, they chose to compete by selling heavyweight body-on-frame trucks, going head-to-head with the most recherché American designs rather than doing something new and clever. Particularly egregious: the Nissan NV van. Introduced in 2011, it was a not-so-bold step back into the 1960s, with the frame of Nissan's old school Titan pickup residing underneath its portly van body, its ancestry belied by a long and cumbersome prow, and fuel economy charitably described as dismal.
Overall, we know better now, or so one likes to think, and we're delighted to report a new generation of trucks that are lighter, more pleasant and dramatically more abstemious draws near.
To the list of the clever things Fiat chairman Sergio Marchionne has done for Chrysler, add getting the jump on the competition in getting America the trucks it deserves. The sad, secret fact that in many fundamental (if not all) respects almost all European vans have long since become better than American ones is now officially out of the bag. Fiat's opportunity was clear and they've taken it, good for them.
So welcome the upcoming Doblo, Ducato and Iveco Daily vans, three sizes, small to large, all Fiat products likely to be renamed Ram-something. Chrysler has had nothing in the van segment it once bulked up on, since its break up with Daimler-Benz, which took the Sprinter along with Chrysler's solvency a few years back. Happily, the Fiat product doesn't just fill a hole for a re-imagined Chrysler, it's promises, like its new Dodge Dart, to be rather decent.
So too the new Ford Transit. Lighter and leaner that what came before it, it should be quicker than the Econoline it replaces yet it will be considerably more economical and vastly more nimble. In addition to its standard powerplant -- Ford's regarded and now-proven Ecoboost V6 -- a four-cylinder turbo-diesel is a possibility on the horizon. The Transit will complement the smaller Transit Connect. Introduced to the rest of the world in 2002 but the U.S. only recently, the small, front-drive world van built in Turkey is a handsome little carrier that if nothing else proves that even if Ford's thinking in the van arena isn't much at home, it's still quite sophisticated elsewhere.
Next to the Econoline's current 20 year run or the jaw dropping 32-years afforded Chevrolet's 1964-1996 van, the current Chevrolet Express Van and its GMC Savannah twins are mere striplings of 16. But they could get a lot older. With the onslaught of new Ford and Chrysler-Fiat product imminent, it has fallen to GM to take the low road and stick with the tired hardware they finished paying for years ago, and it's taken up the challenge, at least temporarily until some still unspecified day when it may unify around a single global van platform, the Opel Movano. Though Opel doesn't get credit for being a key center of GM excellence, its engineering staffs' involvement is essential to its successful re-entry into the world van market on level footing. There is very good reason to fear an all American effort at a new van would at this late date miss the mark.
Because Detroit has fallen behind the rest of the world's vans. It has, in van terms, played survival of the fittest and lost. Yet, ironically, its fitter competitors were often subsidiaries of itself, their own organization only on the other side of the ocean. Over decades the companies' bifurcated product lines provided a valid test of the Big Three's view of the world - one set of rules for America, one for the rest of the globe. Consonant with their ideas of passenger cars, they developed two completely different types of vans in parallel on several continents and, in the end, one of the lines proved superior. That it was the European one on both occasions probably surprises us Americans more than anyone else. In the end, virtues like economy and reduced weight must always triumph.
So farewll Econoline. We knew ye all too well.
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