Date:         Fri, 6 Feb 2004 16:56:20 -0700
Reply-To:     gary2a@TELUSPLANET.NET
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From:         "G. Lee" <gary2a@TELUSPLANET.NET>
Subject:      re. I Win the Friday Bonehead Award
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Jeff wrote:
 I was backing a nice '87 Wolfsburg out of the
shop today and didn't bother to notice that someone only opened the roll-up
door about 5' 10".

Can anyone guess what happened next??  Loud metallic bang followed by
extreme cursing (by me).

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I'll bet there are a lot of garage door- not enough clearance stories out
there.
Here's mine.
An out of town listees syncro westy was having a vibration problem.  I
offered to take a look at it and remove the driveshaft.  I pulled their van
into my garage and heard the same noises as Jeff describes above.  I had set
my garage door opening height to accommodate a syncro westfalia, thought
that would be enough for any kind of vehicle I would drive in there.  Well,
this listees van had roof racks on top of the pop top.  Fortunately the
wooden garage door yielded and broke, the van suffered no damage.

Gary Lee
http://www.telusplanet.net/public/gary2a/rack/vanagonrack.htm