Date:         Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:48:12 -0500
Reply-To:     Mike South <msouth@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Mike South <msouth@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: If a tree falls ...
Comments: To: Mark Hineline <hineline@ocotillofield.net>
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On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Mark Hineline
<hineline@ocotillofield.net> wrote:
> If a tree falls and warps the roof of your 2001 GTI, will the
> insurance company total it out, sell it back to you for salvage, and
> give you a check with which you can buy a 1982 Vanagon Westfalia?
>
> Yes, yes, yes.

Yes, yes, yes--as long as the adjuster they send out doesn't notice
the saw marks on the branch, or the place where you attached the chain
to pull it down.

mike
>
> The Vanagon started life as a diesel, but got an aircooled transplant,
> so I'm back on type 2. Someday I'll transplant the 1.8L turbo from the
> GTI into it, but that's in the distant future.
>
> It has been far, far too long a time to have been without a bus.
>
> Name? Peregrine Fille
>
> Mark Hineline
> Peregrine Fille (1982)
>