Date:         Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:58:47 -0800
Reply-To:     Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Bumper contemplations
Comments: To: "Joe T." <vanagon85@GMAIL.COM>
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It isn't just Vanagons; I did the same thing to the then-still-pristine side of my old '55 Chevy panel.
 
Stephen

--- On Tue, 11/30/10, Joe T. <vanagon85@GMAIL.COM> wrote:


From: Joe T. <vanagon85@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Bumper contemplations
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Date: Tuesday, November 30, 2010, 3:51 PM


"same goes for those 3 foot poles around gas tank islands that like to come
in contact with your sliding door and RR quarter panel.."

Nine years of driving Vanagons (at the time) and I made this deplorable
rookie mistake.  I couldn't even look at that side of my Vanagon for a
month.  I'm still disgusted about it.

This winter, I will take the power tools to that quarter panel (per
Benplace.com's instructions) and see what kind of trouble I can get myself
into with a foray into bodywork.

Joe T.



On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 7:47 PM, <JordanVw@aol.com> wrote:

> id say #1 is more common..
> same goes for those 3 foot poles around gas tank islands that like to come
> in contact with your sliding door and RR quarter panel..
>
>
> In a message dated 11/28/2010 4:14:44 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>  oldvolkshome@GMAIL.COM writes:
>
> #2 is  the most consistent cause :)
> --
> Jim Thompson
> 84 GL 1.9 "Gloria"
> 84  Westfalia 2.1 "Ole Putt"
> 72 411 Station Wagon "Pug"
> 75 914 1.8  "Nancy"
> Full Timing Since March  1999
> oldvolkshome@gmail.com
> http://www.oldvolkshome.com
> ***********************************
> On  Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Mark L.  Hineline
> <hineline@ocotillofield.net> wrote:
> > Whenever I find  a new Vanagon in the boneyards, the front bumper is
> > pristine while the  rear is a twisted piece of wreckage. As is mine.
> > This leads me to  think that one or more of these things is true:
> >
> > 1. We are  better at driving forward than we are at backing up.
> >
> > 2.  Impatient drivers come up on our rears more than we would  like.
>



--
Joe T.
'85 Wolfsburg Westy Subie 2.2