Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 10:18:55 -0700
Reply-To: Joseph Fortino <love2bike140@YAHOO.COM>
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From: Joseph Fortino <love2bike140@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Duh! What gear we in?
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funny story same thing happen in my 66 bug after
not driving it for months, I was blocking a car from
going around in a lot, BOY was the driver pi**ed. hehe
I was like wait I don't have reverse. LOL
I love that 66 Stan has and would risk loosing my wife
if I dug to deep in the funds right now. dang my bug
needs a mate, was hoping to breed the if possible. :)
no it would give birth to a NB
happy Friday and safe driving to all
Joe
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Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 07:27:26 -0500
From: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM> Subject: Duh!
What gear we in?
This is one of those days when I woke up at 4 am for
no reason.
Rather than go back to bed and roll a few miles trying
to get back to
sleep I decided to answer a few E mails and read up on
the Solex carbs
I'm about to rebuild.
Time passes and I decide to make a rocket trip to the
grocery about 6
AM.
I get in my 83 Westy and crank her up, buckle up to
stop the screeching
seat belt and shift into reverse ......... No Reverse?
I give it a few more tries and mutter under my breath
'why me lord'?
I know this van is going to be in the wrong place even
if I'm going to
work on it so I get my flashlight and lay under the
van and manipulate
the shift rod into what I know to be reverse position.
I roll out of "Oh! Hell!" position and sit up noting
that I'll never
use
molybdenum grease on that shift mechanism again.
Reaching for a paper towel and wringing my hands hard
around the entire
roll to get the grease off I notice that reverse on my
83 Westy is
forward and over to the left.
Just like the picture on the shifter knob!.
Gee! Should have considered that all that fun I've
been having in that
screaming 66 Splittie warped my mind.
Splittie reverse is over to the left and backwards all
the way.
Me thinks I got too many VWs in the drive.
Stan Wilder
83 Air Cooled Westfalia
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