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Date:         Sat, 3 Feb 2007 03:03:46 -0600
Reply-To:     Max Wellhouse <maxjoyce@IPA.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Max Wellhouse <maxjoyce@IPA.NET>
Subject:      Re: Essential Tools...washing out the bus
Comments: To: Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
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I owned a rusty 64 Ghia that I paid $50 for w/o an engine and had a Porsche Super 90 motor to stick in there for a while. Interesting car to say the least with 356B rims and Michelin XAS radials on it(don't remember if I had an old EMPI camber compensator on the back axle or not!). didn't realize how trusty it was until I was driving down to ST. Louis on Thanksgiving to be with my parents and all of a sudden a rather wet rain storm was passing by. Didn't think too much about it until I hit the brakes to exit on to I-70 and a wall of cold water rushed upon the back of my calf muscles. Seeing no harm in the following action, as I made a clockwise 270 degree turn around the cloverleaf, I simply opened the driver's door at 35mph and watched all that water scatter out the opening. I think Isaac Newton would've been proud, but when I told my parents of this, they howled for 5 minutes straight.

DM&FS

At 08:40 PM 2/2/2007, Jim Felder wrote:

>On Feb 2, 2007, at 8:00 PM, Ronald Michaels wrote: >> while I was waiting for the pump to thaw out I >>thought about the time I spilled 5 gallons of latex paint in the >>floor of my >>bus at that same house. I parked the bus with the side door side >>sloping >>down and hosed out the entire floor to wash out the paint. > >On several occasions, I got a pony into my 69 bus (pony content-- >years ago, long story, don't ask. The essential tool in this case was >a short lead to pull the pony in). Of course the pony would always >fill the floor with a mess by the time the pony and daughter were >delivered to wherever they were going. But--no problem! Park on a >slope and hose it out as Ronald did. > >I miss the utter simplicity of those things. > >But I love my vanagons (vanagon content) on the road better than >anything. > >Jim > > > >-- >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.1.410 / Virus Database: 268.17.17/661 - Release Date: 1/30/2007

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