Date:         Tue, 5 Jun 2012 11:35:07 -0700
Reply-To:     Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Vanagon Alloy wheels $300
Comments: To: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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I recall an old Car and Driver test of a Dodge police car with steelies and the small "dog dish" hubcaps, a look they described as more "butch" than full wheel covers. When we bought our '87 two of the plastic wheel covers were cracked/broken so Santa brought me the small caps from Go Westy that year.  Butch it is.
 
Stephen

--- On Mon, 6/4/12, Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM> wrote:


From: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Vanagon Alloy wheels $300
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Date: Monday, June 4, 2012, 12:23 PM


On 06/03/2012 08:31 PM, JRodgers wrote:
> Do steelies bring a better price?

I can't answer that but they do seem to have a fashion cachet in certain
circles.

My son was over yesterday, helping re-bleed the brakes and replace the
DOT3 fluid we put in a few weeks ago with DOT4 fluid -- higher boiling
point, it says here -- and he said that I should remove the plastic hub
caps from my stock 14'' steel wheels because black steel wheels are the
preferred look now among his crowd of off-roaders.

"Besides," he said, "it's more 'Road Warrior' that way."

--
Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
Bend, Ore.