Date:         Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:50:51 -0800
Reply-To:     Scott Daniel - Shazam <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From:         Scott Daniel - Shazam <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject:      Re: Nearly creamed by a Syncro AW
Comments: To: Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@yahoo.com>
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Oh, those ( rather ugly IMO ) vans.
Cool.
What about 'inboard wheels.' ?
I'm sure it has a narrow track, but not inboard wheels like say, inboard
disc brakes would be.' 
Thanks for the pic. 
Scott 

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Grisanti [mailto:bike2vcu@yahoo.com] 
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 11:32 AM
To: Scott Daniel - Shazam; vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Nearly creamed by a Syncro AW

If you ever played (or still do) with Matchbox/Dinky
toys you probably know what a Commer van is.  The look
of the wheelwells is reminiscent of the Nash
Metropolitan.

http://www.lrfaq.org/Series/Dormobile/JHess/pictures/rCOMMER.jpeg
 

Stephen

--- Scott Daniel - Shazam <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
wrote:

> Hi Andrew, 
> Interesting tale,
> Few of us in the states would know what a  "one of
> those inboard-wheeled 60s
> Commer vans"
> is, and what are inboard wheels ?
> an extra narrow track on one end, or ? 
> Scott 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List
> [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
> Andrew Grebneff
> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 2:14 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Nearly creamed by a Syncro AW
> 
> >Well, I have read about a husband and wife crashing
> into each other.
> >And I did have two consecutive serial numbers of
> the same kind of car once.
> >
> >
> >'running the light' .........what kind of vanagon
> or syncro owner does that
> >! ?
> >scott
> >turbovans
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Vanagon Mailing List
> [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
> >Nunya Business
> >Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 7:57 PM
> >To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> >Subject: Re: Nearly creamed by a Syncro AW
> >
> >That's probably the strangest variation of the 'was
> that anybody on the
> >list' routine I've seen. It did make me stop to
> think, however, that I've
> >never seen an accident that involved two of the
> same vehicle.
> >
> >Cya,
> >Robert
> 
> I did see the aftermath of two mid-late-70s Coronas
> colliding (RT100
> & RT104, same car but different years) and while I
> had my 57 VW
> panelvan I found myself following (in my other
> vehicle) one of those
> inboard-wheeled 60s Commer vans with a plate one
> digit later than
> mine.
> --
> Andrew Grebneff
> Dunedin
> New Zealand
> Fossil preparator
> Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut
> , Opinions stated are mine, not those of Otago
> University
> "There is water at the bottom of the ocean"  -
> Talking Heads
> 



 
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