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Date:   Wed, 16 Feb 2000 12:48:38 -0800
Reply-To:   andrew swingler <andys@ECE.UBC.CA>
Sender:   Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:   andrew swingler <andys@ECE.UBC.CA>
Subject:   Re: rust pictures
Comments:   To: Chris Gkikas <theerion@GATOR.NET>
In-Reply-To:   <38AADE61.1C8956C5@gator.net>
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Here Here

Chris, gets some sand paper, a bodywork book and a couple of new tools to play with. Do a little readin find some sun get some tunes and go to work. At worst you'll learn tons. Its all about going where you have never been before. Some people like walks in the woods and others like to get behind some rust or spend 4 days changing an oil seal. Whatever it takes. I say go for it and when mine is rusty I'll come to you for advice.

-Andy

On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Chris Gkikas wrote:

> why do i feel like i've been attacked? you don't have to be brutal to be > honest. i got responses from many listmembers on this one and none of them came > close to the negativism of yours. if you don't have any faith in this vehicle, > then don't make me feel like a fool for mine. i understand that you're just > trying to be honest and perhaps save me some trouble, but the whole shitass tone > of your message makes me sick. thank god for the rest of the list, because if i > had to depend only on your advice, i'd be nowhere. did you take a look at my > webpages to see that i'm capable of more than an oil change before indirectly > calling me a 'wannabusser?' i hate seeing posts like yours. > > > You're doomed to failure. > > lighten up. > chris > > > > > Jeff Stewart wrote: > > > In a message dated 00-02-16 11:17:38 EST, you write: > > > > << please have a look see and maybe help a > > > novice get started on restoring his dream barge. >> > > > > This is why I always hate to see someone who buys a Split/Bay/Vanagon thats a > > basket case for a few hundred bucks ( and I hope you didn't pay much for this > > one) with grandiose ideas of restoring it. You are doomed to failure. This is > > an enormous task, and if its your only transportation, next to impossible. > > Putting bondo on this would only make a slight and very temporary improvment > > in appearance, and, as others have said, it may be downright unsafe. My > > advice to all those wannabusers: save your money until you can afford a > > decent one. You will only end up throwing away money on a project vehicle > > like this one. You'll lose interest, money, and time and will most likely end > > up having the whole mess towed away to the boneyard. It would take a > > professional to restore this, and quite honestly, I doubt any professional > > would would see any value in doing so. Sorry to be so brutally honest, but I > > think I speak the truth. Jeff S. (Now doing the second restoration on > > a '76 Westfalia- first one done with bondo) >


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