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• Re: Friday: What's the perfect second car for Vanagon owners?
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Fri, 28 Aug 2015 11:36:17 -0500
  ...Yes, compared to the Vanagon, I don't see why they bother to put an opening hood on the car. Jim On Fri, Aug...
• Re: [WetWesties] Friday in the Vanagon..
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Schwaia
  Fri, 22 Apr 2011 14:24:59 -0700
  ...30am... 40 degrees F, with the sun rise pink on Mt. Hood. Clear as a > bell, for the first time in a long time...
• 86 Synchro For Sale
  Historical mailing list - Joel Skousen
  Tue, 11 Nov 1997 08:55:20 -0800
  ...usually in Hood River, Oregon, but presently near Salt Lake City Utah. Will deliver if you pay for gas costs anywhere West of Denver...
• Re: I missed the turn
  Historical mailing list - Mark Sheflo
  Wed, 18 Jun 2003 22:35:39 -0700
  ...My Law enforcement Ford Crown Vic will excite you but it takes a minute before the hood vacumes completely out of sight. I don...
• Re: Hoods in the van..
  Historical mailing list - J Stewart
  Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:49:24 +0000
  ...Vans in the hood > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > Date: Thursday, October 20, 2011, 2:26 PM > Ahhhh.....Stealth Vanagons! Since it's close...
• '85 GTI parts giveaway prices, in WV
  Historical mailing list - John Anderson
  Mon, 22 Sep 1997 20:17:04 +0000
  ...Body parts sort of sketchy, hood and deck lid good, drivers door OK, interior pretty much trash. John vwbus@netbiz.net (304)788-3704
• Re: VW Quantum Question/ No Van Content
  Historical mailing list - Joshua Van Tol
  Thu, 1 Apr 1999 21:42:24 -0600
  ...BTW, there's a vacuum diagram on the sticker inside the hood. Joshua Van Tol -- jjvantol@uswest.net
• Re: Thinking about a Sunnis conversion
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Sun, 27 Feb 2011 22:25:24 -0800
  ...What else should I > grab from under the hood? > Will I require a special engine mount bracket besides the bell housing > transition piece? > Would...
• Re: 55 to 65 mpg in a diesel vanagon?
  Historical mailing list - Eric Zeno
  Thu, 9 Dec 2004 11:03:20 -0500
  ...I love seeing those people who put bug guards on the hood of trucks, after GM spent millions of dollars trying to get a...
• Re: ABA 2.0L 15 degrees
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth Wilford
  Thu, 8 Nov 2007 12:53:45 -0500
  ...So if you are trying to get an ABA under the hood with the 15 degree setup you need to dig a trench under...
• Re: Vanagon Westy replacement
  Historical mailing list - Michael Hart
  Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:41:40 -0800
  ...my brother who has never had to open the 'bonnet' (aka hood) in 2 years... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda_Bongo Mike '87...
• Re: radio antenna replacement
  Historical mailing list - Mick Kalber
  Thu, 26 Oct 2000 09:39:38 -1000
  ...a one piece, full length antenna that will bend to the hood of the car, but not break. It does not retract in any...
• Re: "Recorder with warning switch" - what is this?
  Historical mailing list - Dan Winget
  Mon, 14 Oct 2002 11:37:33 -0400
  ...Just about all the >Golf/Jettas I looked at at the junkyard on Saturday have them mounted under >the hood up where the wipers...
• Re: No instrument lights or gas guage?
  Historical mailing list - Florian Speier
  Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:51:43 -0600
  ...All I've done > so far is pull the brown hood off and check for loose stuff on top- > time to unscrew and check...
• Re: "Recorder with warning switch" - what is this?
  Historical mailing list - Gary Shea
  Mon, 14 Oct 2002 08:57:26 -0600
  ...Just about all the > Golf/Jettas I looked at at the junkyard on Saturday have them mounted under > the hood up where the wipers...
• Re: ok, stretched beetle limo!
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Mon, 21 Feb 2005 20:08:50 +1300
  ...of motor has 3 cylinders? > >the one up front, under the hood. it's a Citroen 2CV. or was it a DKW? >i forget...
• Re: Evan's Head Question
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:51:33 -0700
  ...I had thought you might be in my 'hood. Karl Wolz Sent from my electronic umbilicus On Nov 29, 2011, at 7:44 PM...
• '92 EV FS/Canada
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 27 Mar 1996 01:03:00 -0400 (AST)
  ...7 seater, clean in and out, ~rust-free rock dimples on hood, sidelight lense and windshield good new lowprofile Michelins, drove/handled fine too...
• engine install
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Nelson
  Sun, 12 Mar 2000 22:26:24 -0700
  Hi all, I'm contemplating the joys of vanagon-hood again, but first I need to stuff my used 87 engine into my 86...
• Re: radio antenna replacement
  Historical mailing list - Doug Alcock
  Fri, 27 Oct 2000 09:15:00 -0400
  ...All of their >antennas broke right off before they could touch the hood. Oops. I >must say, though, that they *did* bend more than...
• Re: NVC: I want a sports car
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Sat, 2 Feb 2008 13:07:51 -0800
  ...more than i want an Audi that > >>>>> says VW on the hood. > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>> thats like saying you dont want a mercury any more than a...
• first 400+ mile trip
  Historical mailing list - Brendan Slevin
  Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:54:45 -0700
  ...Just then my wife noticed there really was smoke form under her seat! We were coming down the side of Hood and found a...
• Re: Is ONE DAY PAINT any good?
  Historical mailing list - Berry Kercheval
  Wed, 18 Oct 1995 14:54:33 PDT
  ...My hood had had some dust settle on it while still wet and they sanded it out and resprayed the whole panel for no...
• Re: SUV Bashing) was Think Positive to start your new year
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Wed, 25 Jun 2003 14:08:56 -0400
  ...in that no-man's-land between the doghouse and the hood. Later in life it started to suffer from two problems that Vanagon...
• Re: Westy Winter Camping Suggestions.(Now Water Pumps).
  Historical mailing list - Mark Tuovinen
  Wed, 25 Oct 2006 14:14:41 -0800
  ...If you open the hood you can hear it > running for quite a while after you turn off the engine. I assume > it is...
• Re: Advice about how to deal with auto shipper damage
  Historical mailing list - John C...
  Fri, 9 May 2008 10:45:56 +0000
  ...I am thinking about just noting this on the > shipping form and then taking the loss of the hood up with the shipping > company...
• Re: Advice about how to deal with auto shipper damage
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Fri, 9 May 2008 10:11:37 -0700
  ...I am thinking about just noting this on the shipping form and then taking the loss of the hood up with the shipping company...
• Re: [Syncro] bURNINGvAN 2015 is almost upon us!
  Historical mailing list - Ben
  Mon, 22 Dec 2014 10:05:40 -0800
  ...We'll be in your 'hood for the NY holidays. Here's hoping it's not another 'save the air day'. It would be...
• Re: *MY* 82 Diesel!
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 26 May 94 9:44:56 EDT
  ...With the absence of the hood and that huge surface area of glass, it's like having a big-ass HD-TV monitor stuck...
• Re: Failed State Safety Inspection (Tie Rod)
  Historical mailing list - Mark Hudgik
  Thu, 5 Mar 1998 20:27:59 -0500
  ...I recall the > time an inspector here was standing in FRONT of my vehicle wondering how > to unlock the hood to inspect the engine!
• Re: I've had it...Ed's finished with me.
  Historical mailing list - Odyssey Stickers
  Sat, 13 Mar 1999 09:47:46 +0000
  Check under the hood, I remember reading in Car and driver, Saturn uses Nissan Engines in their cars, So is it still an American...
• Re: RIP Click (or was he Clack?)
  Historical mailing list - Max Wellhouse
  Mon, 3 Nov 2014 23:47:18 -0600
  ...He opens up the hood in the >>>> back >>>> and makes one adjustment and returns to the driver's seat and now the >>>> vehicle makes...
• Re: How bad is it to have dual carbs instaed if the FI on an 84
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Thu, 22 Aug 2013 16:52:02 -0400
  ...The carburetor was so covered in fancy linkages you could hardly see it, and the vacuum-hose map under the hood was...intense. More...
• Re: Three white Vanagons
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Sun, 27 Mar 2011 19:43:23 -0700
  ...There must be at least a dozen in Hood River, our "Big City". Don Hanson
• VW Books
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 01 Apr 1996 06:47:43 GMT
  ...the body - seemed to be mostly about the goodies under the hood). Now, finally the question. What book do all of you on the...
• Re: creaky steering wheel
  Historical mailing list - Randy Bergum
  Wed, 10 Nov 1999 18:53:03 -0800
  ...Is there some sort of trick for eliminating this noise short of removing the > hood off the steering wheel? > > TIA > > Tom > Marlin - 89 Westy
• Re: Greenish Puddle Under My Van
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
  Sat, 3 Jan 2004 15:45:39 -0800
  ...My reservoir under the dash hood is at max and was just above that before going on a recent long trip. Any ideas? TIA...
• Bad CV Joint Turns Vanagon back home
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
  Sat, 12 Aug 2006 06:18:29 -0700
  A bad CV turned me and a friend back home last night on our way to kayak on the Hood Canal. The CV boot...
• Re: More on newer Vanagon Tech on older Vanagons...
  Historical mailing list - Vdub Guy
  Mon, 1 Oct 2007 02:10:25 +0000
  ...The hood was up, and the salesman said "come look at this engine" (it was highly modified) and as I got out I shut...
• Re: Local dealer's tiki makeover
  Historical mailing list - Marc Perdue
  Fri, 22 Nov 2013 18:05:04 -0500
  ...Note also the > "hood art" with a Rat Fink theme high on the walls. Very cheery place early > on a cold November Friday morning...
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  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Mon, 10 Jun 2024 20:02:30 -0400
  ...Or what other ones are out there? >> >> A flip down bar like in a car hood? A flip thing that goes between the door...
• Re: annual inspection fun...
  Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
  Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:30:19 -0500
  ...And kid doing the inspection asked me: "where is the hood release?". I overheard one say: "this is the coolest thing I've ever...
• Re: Volkswagen 'quality'
  Historical mailing list - David Schwarze
  Thu, 9 Nov 1995 22:07:33 -0800 (PST)
  ...that a few of the new cars coming out had aluminum hoods and stuff... was it the Lincoln Mark VIII? Cadillac? I can't...
• Re: jet powered engine conversion.....check this out..(f)
  Historical mailing list - Kitzmann
  Thu, 8 Mar 2001 09:58:47 -0500
  ...don't think the people behind you will like seeing thier paint burning off thier hoods as you sit at a light. Dave K.
• Re: oxidation on a dark-colored pop-top: any consensus on a solution?
  Historical mailing list - phil stanhope
  Sun, 5 Aug 2001 18:30:14 -0700
  ...using. > > 90% of all the semi's going down the road hoods are > fiberglass, and > their all painted! > How about Corvette's ? > > Where did...
• Re: [Fwd: Re: Metal engine lids - what year?]
  Historical mailing list - Michael Snow
  Mon, 19 Nov 2001 06:30:12 -0800
  ...saw a Mack burn last week. > Musta been a gas Mack----- > > The fiberglass hood looked like it was a refugee from Nagasaki----- > > Later, > > Terry
• Re: 3rd eye
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
  Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:21:45 -0700
  ...So he cut a hole in the hood and put a single headlight bucket. It worked but sure was funny looking. We used to...
• Re: Camping Oven- Betty Crocker Bake Off
  Historical mailing list - Martin Jagersand
  Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:09:48 -0600
  ...If the food is wet/messy on top I use a spacer to hold up the hood in the middle. (such as the spacer...
• Garage Terminology
  Historical mailing list - Jon B. Kanas
  Fri, 28 Apr 2000 14:59:10 -0600
  ...Pressure is approx 0 psi Fuel hits the hood insulation... Pressure is 5 - 8 psi Fuel squirts over the fender... Pressure is 10-15...
• Re: Any VW Halloween Ideas?
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 26 Oct 1996 08:01:09 -0500 (EST)
  ...The hood had the facke of the jack o'lantern. Two days later, I washed the paint off....however some of hte pigment had...
• Gonzo Mechanix on the 85
  Historical mailing list - Charlie Callahan
  Fri, 05 Apr 1996 00:37:08 +0000
  ...Well, my bug had an inoperable hood lock. I had my tools in there. Emphasis on _had_. I now have a working lock, and...
• Re: Scoop for breather?
  Historical mailing list - The Gunnings
  Sat, 5 Aug 2000 15:00:41 -0400
  ...The best solution, however, might be a small shield type hood preventing the rainwater from entering yet permitting the warm air to ascend and...
• Re: Another one in the 'hood. ('89 Bluestar)
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 15 Jul 2007 11:33:56 EDT
  In a message dated 7/12/07 8:43:28 PM Eastern Daylight Time, bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM writes: > I've seen this one before...
• Re: some big trouble with a locking gas cap
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 21 Jun 1996 18:52:38 +0100
  ...Pop the hood and disconnect the filler tube. Then remove the vent hose alongside of the filler tube together with its screw-in connector...
• Re: Best/easiest way to work under a Vanagon?
  Historical mailing list - Gerald Masar
  Thu, 23 Dec 1999 19:34:58 -0700
  ...In a van, a lot of the workings are hard > to reach, like underneath it, rather than under a > hood; thus it is even...
• Re: Take a look at the new T-5 Camper.
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Mon, 12 Sep 2005 15:54:15 -0700
  ...Welcome to dullsville, man, where all cars have a hood, and the engine is under it! * I've seen exactly ONE Phaeton here in...
• Re: The real story about the invention of the WBX?
  Historical mailing list - J Stewart
  Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:43:43 +0000
  ...I told him to pop the hood. The look on his face was priceless!! Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "george jannini" <georgejoann@GMAIL.COM> To...
• Re: Bread Loaf citing
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth Lewis
  Fri, 3 Oct 2008 13:33:45 -0400
  ...To make matters worse, it was set in Portland, OR (my > 'hood) > and that was quite eerie because of familiar scene locations. > > WHY do...
• The "return;" EV crunch; busfires
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 11 Jun 1996 18:38:23 +0000
  ...I saw his truck first after the accident, with the mangled bumper and dented hood and grille, and figured I was in for a...
• Re: Luggage rack mod, not mine
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Wed, 24 Aug 2016 19:01:41 -0700
  ...quickly transition through being a ‘flap’ en route to becoming a hood ornament on the vehicle behind me. :) > > You could probably design one so...