Date:         Tue, 17 Jan 95 08:45:42 -0500
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         walshp@ippdsgi3.nawc-ad-indy.navy.mil (Pat Walsh)
Subject:      Junkyard adventures (was Re: Westy _curtain changes_, 7/70-8/71)

>>On Sat, 14 Jan 95, Pat ("Got any 12V stickers, man?") Walsh 
>><walshp@ippdsgi3.nawc-ad-indy.navy.mil> drooleth:
>> Wow!  What a score on that parts manual!  If you're taking requests, I'd
>> certainly appreciate a copy too.  It sounds chock full of the minutiae
>> detail-obsesive owner/restorers such as myself covet.  ("Hi, my name is Pat
>> and I admit to laboriously peeling the interior stickers from Westys in
>> junkyards and to picking up used trim screws from junkers instead of using
>> "newfangled" unoriginal ones from the hardware store.")  I could give you a
>> copy of my '70 Westy manual (covers '71 too, I'm told), or volunteer to type
>> up a summary of the changes shown through the years as indicated in your
>> manual (for inclusion in the gopher).
> Joe Clark respondeth:
>I feel your pain, Pat.  Have you ever found yourself up to your neck in 
>fire-ants, trying to remove a siezed do-dad from a rusting hulk in a 
>tick-ridden junkyard, and said to yourself, "God I LOVE these cars!!"?
Nope, can't say I've encountered fire-ants but last year I was in the nether
reaches of a junkyard and the weeds and grass were so high I had to climb
onto the tops of cars a couple of times to get my bearings as I searched for
the front of the lot.  The most amusing yard, though, was one some friends
and I went to as teenagers.  The owner was apparently a farmer, as there were
(BIG) pigs roaming the place.  No sign to that effect, we were just startled
to round a corner and come face-to-snout with one.

Pat Walsh, '71 Westy, walshp@ippdsgi3.nawc-ad-indy.navy.mil