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  • Cheap Interior Lights.
    Historical mailing list - Al Knoll
    Wed, 19 Jul 95 11:21:05 PDT
    In a moment of enlightenment, I was thinking of wiring up a series/parallel arrangement of clear micro Christmas lights. These little buggers sell...
  • turned 200,000 on the odometer!
    Historical mailing list - Ryan Alfonso
    Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:42:24 -0700
    What is the ritualized celebration for this momentous event? Gotta be some way of acknowledging that the distance is more than 8 times the...
  • search of your van
    Historical mailing list - Michael Harrnacker
    Tue, 8 Dec 1998 09:20:57 -0800
    The topic of when/how a cop could search your van/bus was a hot topic a few weeks ago. This might shed some...
  • Virginia Tech and thoughts for Fryeday
    Historical mailing list - David Clarkson
    Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:00:23 EDT
    As we approach Friday April 20th I would like to ask that everyone on the list take time to observe the National Day of...
  • Locking of Security
    Historical mailing list - JOSE RIVERO
    Fri, 27 Jun 1997 14:44:44 +0100
    Hello, all Somebody has any idea in order to close the compartment for where the levels of oil, water, are controlled etc. This this...
  • Re: nomenclature variation
    Historical mailing list - Norman Leong
    4 Aug 1994 09:08:12 U
    ...On 8/4/94, 8:55am PDT, William Warburton wrote: > A fleet of microbusses ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > A tray of breadloaves > A hod of bricks (or maybe...
  • Re: Guns and Cars and Such
    Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
    Sun, 28 Jan 2007 18:00:14 -0800
    --snip-- > I just laugh my ass off at > some of the social and political crap some of some of you spew. --snip-- > I think...
  • filtering out off-color jokes, rants, etc - sort of long
    Historical mailing list - Peter Johnson
    Fri, 14 Dec 2001 08:22:14 -0800
    Hello All, Being Friday and all, I suspect there may well be a number of off-color jokes and comments posted to the list...
  • Poptop vent
    Historical mailing list - Rob Rubin
    Sat, 21 Aug 1999 01:16:22 EDT
    I am at the point of thinking of getting one of those crank up vents for the pop top of my westy and the...
  • Re: Front end bushings -' 88 GL
    Historical mailing list - Ed McLean
    Tue, 15 Nov 2016 16:05:29 -0500
    ...If you consider the price of a couple of sets of original design bushings, the price of labor of replacing them a couple of...
  • if you are going to mexico or already there
    Historical mailing list - Roger Whittaker
    Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:11:19 -0800
    dear fellow of the van community i will be glad to share with you with a Pmail request only i receive a news service...
  • Re: VW club
    Historical mailing list
    Mon, 19 May 97 17:31 CDT
    ...It offers 20% off of parts, 15% off of accessories, and 10% off of labor for card-carrying VWCA members. You can Email the...
  • Re: [Nearly Off-Topic] Seeking Battery Switch
    Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
    Thu, 20 Sep 2012 10:19:24 -0700
    ...I've already looked at West Marine's offerings and I can find either two-position (off/on) switches, or four-position (off/1...
  • Re: TAKE ME OFF OF YOUR LIST....
    Historical mailing list
    Tue, 23 Dec 2003 10:39:31 EST
    In a message dated 12/23/03 10:04:05 AM Eastern Standard Time, forty3forty1@HOTMAIL.COM writes: > I would appreciate being taken off...
  • Dead Headlights
    Historical mailing list - Vlach Family
    Mon, 30 Nov 1998 13:55:36 -0500
    ...stay off Lo-beams: stay off B) Ignition: off Light switch: on Results: Same as #1 + relay in fuse box position10 clicks on/off...
  • How I got my dream bus (long but fun)...
    Historical mailing list - Lash Briggs
    Wed, 17 Sep 1997 09:32:07 -0400
    ...Here's the email I sent to my co-workers (my way of asking off for part of a Friday and Monday). To set...
  • Re: Cairo Report: The Trip Home
    Historical mailing list - mike miller
    Fri, 25 May 2001 08:31:45 -0700
    <SNIP> you forgot pensioner. > 7 Wonders of the Ancient (European/Middle East) world: > > 1) Pyramids at Giza (the only surviving 'wonder') (Egypt) > 2) Pharos...
  • Re: Cheap Interior Lights.
    Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
    Wed, 19 Jul 1995 13:24:48 -0700 (PDT)
    On Wed, 19 Jul 1995, Al Knoll wrote: > In a moment of enlightenment, I was thinking of wiring up a series/parallel > arrangement of...
  • Deeply Saddened and Troubled
    Historical mailing list - Frank Grunthaner
    Tue, 19 Jun 2001 17:11:23 EDT
    I am deeply saddened and troubled by the recent turn of events as regards various posts to the Vanagon list. This comment is triggered...
  • Re: Teaching Math (F) (i got this one from my dad)
    Historical mailing list - Orlando J. Palmer
    Fri, 19 Apr 2002 13:19:45 -0300
    ...Each element is > worth one dollar. > Make 100 dots representing the elements of the set > "M." > The set "C", the cost of production contains...
  • Midwest Gathering
    Historical mailing list
    Wed, 5 Jul 1995 09:24:23 -0500
    By coincidence, Gerry Skerbitz & I have just been talking about the possibility of, next year, trying to have some sort of gathering here in...
  • Re: VW of Brazil - Strange Van
    Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
    Fri, 19 Mar 1999 09:06:57 -0700
    Memories of a World History class some thirty-odd years ago: Spain and Portugal were at war with each other, and one of the...
  • removing westfalia letters or in praise of WD40
    Historical mailing list
    Mon, 15 Apr 96 21:55:30 EDT
    ...This kind of worked but some glue was still left behind. So I went to remove the letters off the front of the van...
  • Re: filtering out off-color jokes, rants, etc - sort of long
    Historical mailing list - Myron Lind
    Fri, 14 Dec 2001 20:01:36 -0800
    ...I must respectfully and strongly disagree with this idea >of censoring the list. Primary point: 90% of all material anywhere could be found >offensive...
  • Re: Space Shuttle Columbia -
    Historical mailing list - TJ Hannink
    Mon, 3 Feb 2003 05:21:03 -0800
    These are the names of four Army Rangers that were killed in a MH-60 Blackhawk helicopter crash in Afganistan on January 30, 2003...
  • Re: TAKE ME OFF OF YOUR LIST....
    Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Schwaia
    Wed, 24 Dec 2003 11:14:36 -0800
    Joe, isn't this kind of circular argument? What you're saying is that only the people who have gotten off the list should...
  • Replacing door locks
    Historical mailing list - K. Taylor
    Sat, 25 Nov 2000 16:18:38 -0800
    ...Someone on the list referred me to the website of one of the online Vanagon parts stores who had a description of how to...
  • Re: Conversion Low Price Vanagon Sale of the Centrury!!!!
    Historical mailing list - George Wietor
    Thu, 11 Apr 2002 18:11:29 -0700
    ...where is it located< geogrphy_wise? tia> geo. --- > > "Nothing does reason more right, > than the coolness of those that offer it: > > For Truth often...
  • Regarding "What Music?"
    Historical mailing list - Calle Fallberg
    Fri, 12 Jun 1998 08:12:45 +0200
    Hi Guys! Well as some of you pointed out, my Q last friday was a "friday thing" but not out of the blue though...
  • Diesel Performance and Salem Witch Trials
    Historical mailing list - Frank Grunthaner
    Mon, 7 May 2001 21:04:03 EDT
    I find myself saddened by the vituperous denigradation of the performance of the Vanagon Westfalia Diesel that has recently graced the pages of this...
  • Extended Warranty, Anybody heard of these people?
    Historical mailing list - Trace Choulat
    Sun, 3 Dec 1995 15:48:09 -0500
    I got my Eurovan back at the end of August and roughly two months later recieved a letter offering an extended warranty on the...
  • Re: Learning Electricity Part Two
    Historical mailing list - Chris S
    Sun, 5 Apr 2009 17:49:10 -0400
    ...One Volt will cause a flow of one Ampere through a resistance > of one Ohm. > > The Ohm is the unit of resistance to flow...
  • What a Great Fourth of July
    Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
    Wed, 4 Jul 2007 22:55:20 -0700
    I'm sitting here after enjoying local fireworks courtesy of about half a dozen of my neighbors that must have put a couple of...
  • VW SUPER SALE!
    Historical mailing list
    Sat, 22 Apr 1995 13:41:17 -0700
    ...Make me an offer; Box of camshafts Box of connecting rods Box of lifters Box of Valve springs, plus one set each of Berg...
  • Re: that little light behind the heater controls
    Historical mailing list - mark drillock
    Sun, 11 Dec 2005 13:57:25 -0800
    I take a piece of thick paper and fold it in half. Then slip in into the slot of the faceplate, wrapped over a...
  • vanagon images
    Historical mailing list - dylan
    Sun, 7 Mar 2010 07:56:57 -0800
    Does anyone have or know of VW images or pics of the profile for each side of a van? I would like to do...
  • Re: Any other OK/TX/KS listers around?
    Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
    Wed, 5 Jun 2002 11:26:38 -0500
    Jon Joyce wrote: > I was just curious to see if there are any of you from this neck of the > woods... Most of the...
  • Re: What is the Cubic Capacity of the RM182B Fridge?
    Historical mailing list - populuxe
    Fri, 9 May 2003 18:47:07 -0500
    These spouts you speak of; got two in different colors as not to confuse them(of course, forgot I even had two immediately). Did...
  • Re: filtering out off-color jokes, rants, etc - sort of long
    Historical mailing list - John McLean
    Fri, 14 Dec 2001 12:49:55 -0800
    Karl Wolz wrote: > > > This is a family oriented list with members > from all walks of life. I often speak of this list as family...
  • Dimensions of Luggage Rack
    Historical mailing list - Richard Golen
    Thu, 3 Aug 2000 07:48:55 -0400
    Hi All, Does anyone know off the top of their head the dimensions of the luggage rack above the cab of a Vanagon Westy...
  • General Question On Battery Venting
    Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
    Wed, 10 Aug 2011 09:08:57 -0700
    Part of the thread on a battery install under the kitchen cabinet on a Westy prompts this question: Is venting of a modern non...
  • Re: gas prices.. and what they'll be this summer
    Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
    Wed, 25 Feb 2004 22:56:34 -0600
    The issues of forces pushing growth of civilizations and populations and fuels to meet the needs of that growth are at it's very...
  • VW of A Suing ME over The VW Homepage
    Historical mailing list - Subject: VW of A Suing ME over The VW Homepage
    12 Sep 1995 17:32:20 GMT
    Volkswagen of America is suing myself and the university I'm at over the use of the pictures of volkswagens I have and the...
  • All the News that Fits, We Print ...
    Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
    Sat, 01 Apr 95 10:27:31 CST
    ...The sudden lay-off was due to the miraculous and, as yet, unexplained disappearance of "road-kill" from the highways and by-ways of...
  • Re: WARNING: SOUTH AFRICAN QUAD LIGHT GRILLES INCITE ROAD RAGE...
    Historical mailing list - Damon Campbell
    Mon, 25 Nov 2002 10:36:05 -0800
    Sorry Chris, this is going to sound a bit harsh, but lights in the eyes is something that bothers me for a variety of...
  • Re: What is the price of gasoline in your town??
    Historical mailing list - Joe L.
    Fri, 25 Feb 2000 00:00:12 -0500
    ...Thus, a thing of beauty. Scoff if you will but the esthetic qualities of this stuff was given official governmet certification in New York...
  • Re: Member's poll
    Historical mailing list - Zeitgeist
    Fri, 9 Feb 2007 11:32:05 -0800
    I was conceived in the back of a '54 Ford. My eldest daughter was probably conceived in the back of my old '67 Bus...
  • Re: Nirvana...
    Historical mailing list
    Tue, 07 Nov 1995 18:07:28 -0400 (EDT)
    Edie Hintz list of "dead" musicians in his band kind of reminds me of my fantasy album (or CD)... Dead Artists Live....featuring Janis...
  • Offset, was: Mercedes Wheels
    Historical mailing list - Bulley-Hewlett & Associates
    Fri, 30 Oct 1998 18:19:27 -0500
    ...If the OFFSET of the wheel was INCREASED, the wheel would "stick out" from the side of the van more than normal. If the...
  • Washing the Westy top
    Historical mailing list - Martin Jagersand
    Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:46:20 -0600
    A season of grime and bird droppings had settled on top of the poptops of my two westys. Encouraged by how well my kayaks...
  • Warning! Audi and Mercedes wheels are dangerous! (long)
    Historical mailing list - Michael J. Sullivan
    Wed, 25 Mar 1998 22:04:13 -0500
    Dear Volks, I am surprised that the engineers among us haven't yet chimed in on the issue of using the proper offset wheels...
  • Natural Laws- Friday
    Historical mailing list - Hector Zapata
    Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:31:01 -0400
    *Law of Mechanical Repair:** After your hands become coated with grease your nose will begin to itch or you'll have to pee.* *Law...
  • question about replacing temp 2 sensor
    Historical mailing list - MOST,DAVID
    Mon, 8 Jan 2001 00:58:07 -0800
    What direction should the clip holding in this sensor face? Since the idea of facing is ambiguous, let's say that given the U...
  • Re: absolutely NVC whatsoever, amazing pictures
    Historical mailing list - Joy Hecht
    Fri, 31 Mar 2006 23:56:52 +0200
    The weird thing is, I took a photo around two weeks ago, here in Malawi, of a rainbow ending in front of trees - the...
  • Some Curiosity Information
    Historical mailing list - Frank Grunthaner
    Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:47:05 -0400
    My computers have reminded me that this is a Friday! Consequently I have decided to share with any of you interested some new material...
  • Re: Archives? What Archives? What Bullshit.
    Historical mailing list - Rico Sapolich
    Sun, 2 Sep 2001 09:34:06 EDT
    ...I once heard of a writer whose field of expertise was composing indices of reference books. Until that point, I had given little thought...
  • Heat for camping
    Historical mailing list - Mark Hineline
    Tue, 23 Jun 1998 11:56:23 -0700
    Since there a bunch of bright and knowledgable folks on this list ... Some of the electric heaters for home use have sealed chambers full...
  • Conversion Low Price Vanagon Sale of the Centrury!!!!
    Historical mailing list - Heffelfinger
    Thu, 11 Apr 2002 19:54:18 -0400
    Well, in a final act of protest at the mere thought of being sold, my Vanagon and I managed to BLOW A HEAD GASKET...
  • Re: Does running out of gas damage fuel injection?
    Historical mailing list - Max/Joyce Wellhouse
    Tue, 12 Sep 2000 04:49:21 -0500
    ...Contrary to all the conventional wisdom about sucking >> crud off the bottom of the tank, when your "run out of gas" there is still...
  • Re: Lamenting head gaskets
    Historical mailing list - Ken Nelson
    Tue, 21 Mar 2000 17:46:25 -0600
    > Automotive News estimates that Ford will spend over $200 million to > placate owners of hundreds of thousands of vehicles with defective head > gaskets. There...