Date:         Sat, 5 May 2001 21:21:46 -0700
Reply-To:     Mark Dorm <mark_hb@hotmail.com>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Mark Dorm <mark_hb@hotmail.com>
Subject:      Re: major hatch strut question, PVC STRUT
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slwalters@earthlink.net sent me a nice picture of pcv struts. IF you haven't
seen this you have to ask him to send you one. (UNLESS you can get to from
here [shows you how much I don't know]) It should be a poster we could all
buy to help fund vanagon.com. I had just finished with the archive search
for all of 2000, and nothing came up under PVC, when I opened up slwalters
message. It made me so happy I started dancing in manner never seen before
on earth, in a style which can only now be called the PVC STRUT. And then
the following song came to me and sang the following aria complete with
lyrics and copyright to slwalters@earthlink.net. Quiet now, I'll sing it for
you too, it has a nice opera hip hop rip rap melodramatic groove to it, and
choregraphy reminescant of West Side Story, but without the racism. Listen
in:

Well, this is just totally bitchen, and graphic too. Why isn't this the
homepage photo for vanagon.com? What else can we do with pvc pipe in the
vanagon? Curtain rods? Protective cover for our antenna? How about as
structure for a curtain box you crawl into so that you can sleep inside of
it with privacy without having to use the curtains against the window when
you nap? That way when a cop stops and shines his light into your van all he
sees is this big black box, kind of like in space odessey 2001. What can he
do but wonder what in the hell it was? Now here's my big question. Why not
put the pipe on both sides? Isn't there a chance you'll warp the door by
only using one side. I'm gonna paint mine gray, to match the interior.
People will think it came that way then. German Engineering. Perfected in
America. This is really going to save my knee caps, and lower my frustration
level by a factor of a very large unknown number. I did find a cheap way to
put small dents in your/our/mine vanagon and hold the hatch up at the same,
all while banging your head now and then (clap your hands now please!). Just
detach one strut, lower it a bit and rest the loose or free tip against the
body of the vanagon where the hatch seals. Walla, the hatch is up, and you
can bang your head whenever you forget how low it is.

>From: "Samuel L. Walters" <slwalters@earthlink.net>
>To: Mark Dorm <mark_hb@hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: major hatch strut question
>Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 23:26:38 -0400
>
>See the attached.
>
>Sam
><< hatch_strut_support.PDF >>

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