Date:         Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:50:32 -0800
Reply-To:     Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: My Westy is totaled!
Comments: To: oxroad@AOL.COM
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>how the tree could clip the antenna and the mirror
and >not touch the body

A tree fell on my wife's (in her pre-wife days) new
Sentra years ago and she was expecting it be totaled,
but when they removed all the foliage there was only a
small dent in the trunk lid which she left unrepaired
as a "vaccination" against further harm.  It worked.
Although the car was completely enveloped by the
fallen tree, the trunk was supported off the ground by
branches and almost nothing touched the car.

Stephen

--- Jeff Oxroad <oxroad@AOL.COM> wrote:

>
>
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> Hey Ron,
> It's all been said already, but I'm sorry to see
> that. That's a real heartbreaker.
>
> When I was back east and one of the hurricanes came
> through (about 1999 I think) it dropped a tree and
> the tree's trunk bent off my Westy's top mount/below
> the windshield radio antenna. It also knocked the
> drivers' outside mirror out of whack. I looked at it
> for hours trying to figure how the tree could clip
> the antenna and the mirror and not touch the body at
> all as it lay about 12 inches from the bus.
>
> I wish you were that kind of lucky. Sorry about the
> loss.
>
> Best,
> Jeff (is jeff still even on the list?)
> 83.5 Westy
> LA,CA
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The Bus Depot <vanagon@BUSDEPOT.COM>
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Sent: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 9:47 am
> Subject: My Westy is totaled!
>
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> A 60 foot tree squashed my Westy like a bug early
> yesterday morning.  I've
> never seen a Vanagon so totally demolished.  Not a
> single body panel is
> intact and it literally split at the seams. The
> curious can see some pics
> at:
>
> http://home.comcast.net/~type2/Vanagon.htm
>
> While I've had a number of VW campers over the years
> of various vintages,
> this one had a special place in my heart, as my
> little girl (now 9) pretty
> much grew up in it over the summers.
>
> Anyway, now comes the arduous process of convincing
> the insurance company
> that a VW camper is worth more than the NADA book
> says it is. And finding a
> replacement.  If anyone knows of a very clean later
> model Vanagon Westy
> (although I wouldn't rule out a '76-79 or a Eurovan
> camper) that isn't
> overpriced, please let me know. Driving distance
> from Philly is preferred
> but not absolutely necessary.
>
> - Ron Salmon
>   The Bus Depot, Inc.
>   www.busdepot.com
>   (215)  234-VWVW
>
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