Date:         Wed, 29 Mar 2006 09:15:39 -0800
Reply-To:     Keith Ovregaard <kovregaard@COMCAST.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Keith Ovregaard <kovregaard@COMCAST.NET>
Subject:      Re: SA Grill
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I put one on my 84 westy and it is solid. The lights are a great
improvement and it really dresses up the front of the van. No regrets
even considering the high cost.

Keith O.
84 Westy "Brownie"
90 Westy Syncro

On Mar 28, 2006, at 9:00 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote:

> Date:    Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:02:39 -0600
> From:    John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
> Subject: Re: SA GRILLE
>
> I have just been examining a SA grille today, sent to me by list member
> Bill Manley, for purposes of determining whether they can be replicated
> on my vacuum forming machine, since the SA Grille is now supposedly
> "NLA".
>
>  While there is some flexibility, they are in no way "flimsey", in my
> opinion. Like many things of that type, the engineers knew what they
> were doing. When you buckle the thing downe, it takes on plenty of
> rigidity. Same is true for the light and bracket that comes with the
> grille. /The glass in the light is :"Hea----veee!". The bracket on
> which
> it mounts at first seems very thing for something so stout as that
> light, but then if you look close at the stiffening ridges and you know
> they got it right. The light and bracket attach to the body of the
> vehicle, and not to the grille for mounting. So the grille carries no
> weight at all but it's own.
>
> Regards,
>
> John Rodgers
> 88 GL Driver x2
>
> Mark C wrote:
>
>> Someone told me the SA GRILLE was flimsy and that he knew some people
>> who had one installed.., and that they weren't happy.., Is there any
>> truth to this?? Thanks..,