Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:42:16 -0800
Reply-To: Philip Zimmerman <philzimm1@OBERON.ARK.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Philip Zimmerman <philzimm1@OBERON.ARK.COM>
Subject: Re: For Canucks Only -what kind of battery?
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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:23:39 EST
From: Frank Condelli <RAlanen@AOL.COM>
LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM writes:
Nathaniel wrote this :-)
What are Canadians using for their second battery? It can't be higher
than about 8".
> Nathaniel's question referred to installing it in rear. (engine
> compartment)
Now, Frank wrote this... |8<)
go back to the very beginning of this thread where it all started
> Gads Frank, I just "smoked" the archives at Gerry, searching for the
> first Aux-Bat Thread!
> What I found in part, reads like this: In the beginning there was the
> Transporter. Then, Ben Pon (forerunner of BenT) scribbled on the back
> of "that" silly napkin and sent the drawing to Heinz Nordhoff first
> CEO of VAG. Heinz dubbed it "that Box on Wheels". Ever since, we silly
> folks we are, have been filling those Boxes-on-Wheels with stuff......
> lots of stuff.
there is ONLY one deep cycle battery that fits............
> No no no no no no no no Frank, there are allot of deep~batts that will
> fit. Nathaniel wants one about 8 inches? I can't answer for either Nat
> or Frank but for me. I aint messing with anything longer than 5.5 to
> 6.25 (the avg Canuck size). And recall Frank, Nathaniel is asking
> about at the "rear". I say no more here on this subject........ Nope,
> not one more word, zip's the word.
for all of the reasons in the mile long thread that's been going on now
for two or three days!
> Frankie-boy my friend, this mile-long thread has been going-on for the
> better part of twelve friggen years, not the two or three you refer to
> in your post. Get with the program Frank!
Geeze, is it only me who reads ALL the messages every day ? I'd better
get a new life !
> Jeeeze Frank, you have a wonderful life (I asked Rita) and your newly
> refurbished suspension parts are to die-for! See, I too, read way-too
> many messages every day. Now get back to work giving Benny-Boy pooh
> and fixing your customers Vans! I gotta get back to listening to
> "other folks" problems.... and they pay!
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End of vanagon Digest - 12 Feb 2007 to 13 Feb 2007 - Special issue
(#2007-195)
Phil Z.
Campbell River, BC
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