Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 12:14:24 -0500
Reply-To: Max Wellhouse <maxjoyce@IPA.NET>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Max Wellhouse <maxjoyce@IPA.NET>
Subject: Re: sounds like a go-cart
In-Reply-To: <20020612.100758.316.4.wilden1@juno.com>
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I dare you to say that to Cheryl Ladd if she brought her Vanagon to you for
some needed maintainence!!! Of course I'd treat Ruth Buzzi( for you young
pups, she played the ragged old hag on laugh in's "Walnetto" routine) with
equal respect, I think.
Dimwitted Moose and Flying Squirrel
At 10:07 AM 6/12/2002 -0500, Stan Wilder wrote:
>One of my neighbors recently (6 months ago) bought a 1978 VW Westfalia.
>It is a very nice looking van and she (lady attorney) ask if I'd be
>available to assist her in maintaining it.
>I did a few very minor things like a new sink water pump, new sink faucet
>and a pop top seal.
>I got paid for my efforts but I sent her elsewhere for her brake job.
>She really loves her little Westy and has spent generously to have the
>front suspension rebuilt, the windshield replaced, a new set of tires.
>If this lady had been a school teacher I'd probably done other work for
>her but being an attorney I calculated that she could negotiate better
>than me and arrive at fair deals for her required services.
>With my Westy in the driveway and often another Westy under restoration I
>know how these damn Vans and Westies seem to always be chipping at you
>and thanks to seven years of 83 Westy ownership I'm pretty much chiseled
>down to a lump.
>Her next expenditure is going to be on a Pop-Top canvas and that is one
>job I'd only do for myself.
>Summary: If you're a lady with a VW Bus, Van, Vanagon, Westy, Syncro
>please don't darken my door with your shadow.
>
>Stan Wilder
>83 Air Cooled Westfalia
>
>On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 08:01:58 -0600 "Blake C. Thornton"
><thornton@MATH.UTAH.EDU> writes:
> > > had the o2 censor done a couple of mths ago. My boyfriends brother
> > > thought maybe it's the spark plugs and rotor. I had the plugs
> > > themselves done a few weeks ago. Any suggestions please.......
> >
> > I like Stan's idea to find a boyfriend that knows what he is doing.
> > I
> > suppose it would be alright if you found a girlfriend who knows she
> > is
> > doing as well.
> >
> > I'm voting on exhaust leak and I'm voting that whoever checked it
> > out
> > didn't know what they were looking for. Go-carts make the noise
> > they do
> > because of the exhaust and my van was making the same noise a few
> > weeks
> > ago until I plugged the holes in the exhaust system (bad gaskets).
> >
> > b
> >
>
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