Date:         Thu, 27 Apr 2000 08:46:28 -0700
Reply-To:     Stuart MacMillan <stuart@COBALTGROUP.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stuart MacMillan <stuart@COBALTGROUP.COM>
Organization: The Cobalt Group
Subject:      Re: "Backing Up Is hard To Do"
Comments: To: Tony Peet <tpvw@HOTMAIL.COM>
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Good trick, but it wouldn't have helped me avoid the 55 gallon drum
filled with concrete I backed into at a junkyard last year!  Hit it
square in the middle of the bumper, crushed everything in about 8" but
was below the hatch.  That's why I couldn't see it.  Very ironic, I was
buying a bumper for my son's Blazer at the time when I crushed mine.
One of those parallax stick on wide angle view gizmos they sell in RV
stores would have helped, but I still don't have one on, I guess I
should.

I was able to weld a hook onto the bracket behind the panel, chain it to
a tree, and pull out most of the cave in, and with a new bumper and some
paint it looks presentable.  Someday I'll replace the panel, but that
will wait until I repaint the whole thing.

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Stuart MacMillan
Manager, Case Program
800-909-8244 ext. 8208
Fax: 206-269-6360

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