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  • Moving to Portland, Oregon from Raleigh, NC
    Historical mailing list - Gregory Mitch Daughtry
    Wed, 18 Dec 1996 15:22:14 -0500
    ...Los Angeles, CA Where i will pick up I 5 North (BURN BABY BURN, DISCO INFERNO) heading up to Yosimete National Park if I...
  • a bus needs a home...
    Historical mailing list - Turbo
    Sun, 27 Oct 1996 11:22:53 -0800
    ...I have owned two > and I loved the iceboxes. Often thought the only sane place for them > was Calif. That is what caused my...
  • RE: Kadrons
    Historical mailing list - Ian Hallett
    Mon, 1 Jul 1996 22:12:15 +1000 (EST)
    ...The carbs are the same as described in the literature I picked up from > Autovice. I couldn't find the crossover tubing because it...
  • Re: All-Terrain 8.5x27 tires
    Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
    Sat, 5 Dec 2015 17:09:47 -0500
    ...I picked up a set of four good used BF Goodrich All-Terrain 8.5x27R14 tires as part of another deal and put these...
  • Re: New tires
    Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
    Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:10:21 -0700
    ...No all-season tire - not even the Hankooks - can compare with a good directional snow tire when driving on snow and ice. The Nokian...
  • New Canvas Adventure
    Historical mailing list - Warren Chapman
    Mon, 31 Dec 2001 10:17:49 -0800
    ...I resorted to using an ice pick to pre-punch the holes before inserting the screws. This helped. The canvas is heavier and coarser...
  • Re: Best way to access upper head bolts to fix leak
    Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
    Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:31:29 -0700
    ...Also, a leak there is probably just the tip of the iceberg - like things look at least that bad at the water gaskets where...
  • Re: Towing an Automatic Vanagon. Cutting the drive axles?
    Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
    Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:15:30 -0700
    ...I've towned them up to 1,100 miles that way, including on ice and snow ! now that can get dicey ! scott www.turbovans...
  • Re: Pop-top wanted
    Historical mailing list - Roger Whittaker
    Wed, 3 Dec 2008 13:04:07 -0800
    ...you want for that van of yours, the one with the ice > >> trays? > >> > >> Mike > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------ > >> + To unsubscribe from the Vanagon List send an e-mail...
  • Re: Locking rear differential
    Historical mailing list - Todd Last
    Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:27:33 +0000
    ...If I were to pick today I would give serious thought to the torque biasing diferential. If I had it to do over, I...
  • Re: Starter Questions and much, much more
    Historical mailing list - Jeff Palmer
    Wed, 15 Mar 2000 01:14:34 -0600
    ...Alan Pickersgill and Donald Baxter took a lot of time to answer my questions, and Marshall Ruskin is going to turn me into a...
  • Re: Snow tires... 2 or 4?
    Historical mailing list - Joseph Dor�
    Sat, 6 Feb 2010 07:28:16 -0500
    ...My wife, driving the Honda with Blizzaks doesn't even notice the snow and ice and slush and drives merrily on her way. I...
  • want ads from LiMBO ... For Sale
    Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
    Thu, 27 Jul 95 23:11:18 CDT
    ...all cabinets, sink, icebox in gd. cond. good pop-top fiberglas, auto trans. call Chris, eves, at (610) 395-2106 (PA) 1980 vanagon L...
  • Re: Fluids Analysis!
    Historical mailing list - neil n
    Fri, 7 Dec 2012 23:46:29 -0800
    ...On the way back some snow and ice and the roads were salted/sanded. > The air filter failed (and this is a big one...
  • Needed: DoubleCab Air Conditioning In Uganda
    Historical mailing list - Derek Drew
    Sun, 29 May 2011 14:27:16 -0400
    ...A brave guy with a pickup truck tows them out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w73wIjdv9qE Unfortunately, their rig looks a lot more...
  • Re: NYC to Palo Alto CA
    Historical mailing list - BA
    Wed, 22 Nov 2006 20:38:34 -0800
    ...You would pick it up at the I-40 exit named "Mountain Springs Road". The National Trails Highway goes roughly along the old railroad...
  • Dometic -- flame outside burner box, more
    Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
    Sat, 7 Sep 2013 06:37:54 -0700
    ...I just picked up a used Dometic RC2000 mobile refrigerator. It's about the size of a small ice chest. It is a three...
  • Re: Dometic Fridge: Bah Humbug! <grin>
    Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
    Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:46:16 -0700
    ...Or how bout trying to fill one of those danglers in the middle of Wyoming in January with ice and frozen mud covering everything...
  • Re: Fuel Master
    Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
    Tue, 6 May 2003 09:26:28 -0500
    ...As a racer we ran a length of coiled up aluminum tubing through a coffee can filled with ice the fuel was cooled and...
  • Re: halfmoons and stars- fixing windshield cracks
    Historical mailing list - sstones
    Fri, 30 Jun 1995 13:26:11 -0400 (EDT)
    On Thu, 29 Jun 1995, David Carment wrote: > Yikes! On our way back through Buffalo I picked up a couple of Loctite > "Bullseye" windshield...
  • Re: help me understand US emissions control strategy.(NVC)
    Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
    Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:04:27 -0700
    ...Sadly, the Ice Worm is now a > threatened species with the demise of the glaciers. Of course no one > talks of him. Being so...
  • Re: BearsBearsEverywhere was: Re: Tent camping in the Mammoth Lakes area
    Historical mailing list - VW Doka
    Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:18:35 -0400
    ...Bear.� The rangers showed up; nothing they could do, they just let him eat his fill out of my neighbor's ice-chest.� What...
  • Introduction - Thanks/Questions
    Historical mailing list - Joanna Strohn
    Sun, 3 Nov 2002 06:15:20 -0700
    ...Haven't seen it yet but the story is that they picked it up in Germany in '89. Drove it around there for 6...
  • Re: VW vs Rolls
    Historical mailing list - Clive Smith
    Fri, 15 Nov 2002 20:56:06 -0000
    ...Nashly Cogswell is also in country in his Paddy Hopkirk Rallye Monte > Carlo Mini Cooper 1275S on his way to RSA to pick up...
  • Re: State of the List... State your ages!!!!!!! :<)
    Historical mailing list - Tom Stone
    Sun, 9 May 2004 21:27:45 EDT
    ...They has three kids and would stop by and pick up the four of us and go for ice cream. There was always plenty...
  • Re: Tire Performance Difference: 185 vs 205
    Historical mailing list - JAIME E FORERO
    Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:50:25 -0800
    ...I have a 91 > Carat, and didn't feel comfortable trying, so I picked > up a SA tire carrier that Peter Jones of V...
  • Re: LED lighting
    Historical mailing list - Marius Strom
    Mon, 21 Feb 2011 19:12:29 +0000
    ...http://www.plasmaglow.com/fire-ice-led-tailgate-bar/ -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Robert...
  • Re: Beat the heat portable AC unit for vanagon $77 bucks
    Historical mailing list - Doug in Calif
    Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:36:43 -0700
    ...Here's the 1750 xanax unit Costco now sells, quite a deal, no? http://tinyurl.com/b9guz I picked up the $77 window AC...
  • SW BC, PNW Meet Update!
    Historical mailing list - Tobin T. Copley
    Fri, 28 Apr 1995 08:28:03 -0700 (PDT)
    ...Saywell Iceman@whidbey.net Eric Oster ekoman@u.washington.edu I noticed from joel's stats for this week that we've picked up...
  • X-Country -1 Week - DONE!
    Historical mailing list - John Reynolds
    Fri, 27 May 2005 23:24:56 -0400
    ...AIRS came thru with directions to Import Service in Rapid City where I picked up a used factory "fix" harness and the problem was...
  • Re: Misc Friday Ramblings, probably long, possibly pointless....
    Historical mailing list - monte merrick
    Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:39:38 -0700
    ...when i drive it i deliver furniture and pick up furniture i've helped people out with - fixing and refinishing and stuff - so we...
  • Re: Don't yell at me but I tried led H4
    Historical mailing list - Stacy Schneider
    Tue, 17 Jan 2017 08:47:14 -0800
    ...Interesting comment about there not being enough heat to melt the ice during cold spells. We don't have that issue here unless we...
  • my summer trip
    Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
    Mon, 21 Nov 1994 12:19:16 -0800 (PST)
    ...We left the island (Vancouver Island), about midday on Aug 23, drove to Vancouver and picked up some supplies at an outdoors store. Then...
  • Re: Near Death Experience in the Vanagon
    Historical mailing list - Aristotle Sagan
    Thu, 18 Oct 2001 16:19:04 -0700
    ...I > > went ice skating in mine at 40 mph and banged into > > the guard rail twice > > with minimal damage (had to pick up the...
  • Re: Correct Gap of Sparks
    Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
    Fri, 21 Feb 2003 07:18:17 -0600
    ...not picking on you Clive when I say this. Spark plug gaps are recommended. If it says .026 and you are in Iceland or...
  • Re: Tire- Smoe realities and some choices.
    Historical mailing list - Roger Whittaker
    Wed, 3 Sep 2008 21:37:05 -0700
    ...just like > driving on ice and snow. > > > > Dennis > -- roger w There are two kinds of jobs in the world: Picking up garbage and telling...
  • Big Trip Report [part 11, long]
    Historical mailing list - Tobin T. Copley
    Fri, 29 Sep 1995 07:22:20 -0700 (PDT)
    ...Even then, I figured the ice could well tear the connections clean off if the ice came off the wrong way, so I left...
  • Friday Re: Loose stuff inside vans.
    Historical mailing list - David Beierl
    Sat, 20 Dec 2014 00:02:27 -0500
    ...Ten minutes later I started to strip off in the bathroom and discovered she'd put a handful of ice cubes down my back...
  • NVC Strange and Stupid Laws in the United States
    Historical mailing list - Hector Zapata
    Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:54:51 -0400
    ...Montana: --In Whitehall, it is illegal to operate a vehicle with ice picks attached to the wheels. --It is a felony for a wife...
  • Re: Needed: DoubleCab Air Conditioning In Uganda
    Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
    Sun, 29 May 2011 15:15:24 -0400
    ...A brave guy with a pickup truck tows them out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w73wIjdv9qE Unfortunately, their rig looks a lot more...
  • LiMBO's Bimbos: Buses for Sale
    Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
    Mon, 13 Feb 95 12:24:03 CST
    ...overhaul, air, 4-speed, all original, excellent condition; $4500 obo Herbert Pick (715) 687-4189 WI '86 Vanagon Syncro van, a/c, tinted windows...
  • Re: WTT: 1987 Syncro for Pop-Top???? <F>
    Historical mailing list - Aristotle Sagan
    Fri, 24 Sep 2004 22:15:36 -0700
    ...pick this van up and when you'll be delivering my Syncro. tim in san jose P.S. I have the munchkin ice trays...
  • Re: A/C shop in CA?
    Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
    Sat, 1 Jul 2006 20:04:38 -0500
    ...And that son of a gun blew COLD as > ice for about three years. It was still blowing cold when the A/C clutch...
  • Re: Which automobile to keep and which to sell :-<
    Historical mailing list - Bradley Flubacher
    Thu, 14 Sep 2000 12:47:37 -0400
    ...Luckily, My neightbor has a pickup truck, and we go to cut/get wood together. He's moving next year though, so I suspect...
  • Re: General/Sorta dirt-road worthiness of 2WD Vanagons?
    Historical mailing list - Aaron Pearson
    Mon, 27 Jun 2005 15:24:37 -0600
    ...At 01:33 PM 6/27/2005 -0700, Michael Elliott wrote: >Compared with other 2wd vehicles, like full-size pickup trucks, and >mid-60...
  • Toronto to New Jersey for a 22.5 Gallon Winkler Tank
    Historical mailing list - Christopher Michael Gronski
    Fri, 29 Sep 2000 16:16:12 -0400
    ...Thanks, Chris Gronski Toronto, Ontario, '80 Westy "Pokey" '87 Chevrolet Sprint (Ice Racer) '91 Pontiac Firefly Convertible ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Michael Gronski" <chrisgronski...
  • Re: Near Death Experience in the Vanagon
    Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
    Thu, 18 Oct 2001 16:46:26 -0700
    ...I > > went ice skating in mine at 40 mph and banged into > > the guard rail twice > > with minimal damage (had to pick up the...
  • Re: [Syncro] Re: Why I hate UPS (was: Vendors and shipping)
    Historical mailing list - Chris Weddle
    Mon, 8 Jan 2001 13:16:58 -0800
    ...Also, they pick up at our door, > which >> saves us at least an hour of hassle. >> >> I think you will find that very few...
  • What I carry in my Westy - Friday
    Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
    Fri, 27 Dec 2002 13:01:42 -0600
    ...Music CDs, Tapes, Maps, Guitar Picks. On floor behind passenger seat: Seasonally, 5000bty A/C unit that hangs on front window. 24 Quart Ice...
  • Re: Vanagon ABS
    Historical mailing list - Roger Whittaker
    Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:11:33 -0800
    ...with the excellent rain and ice tires michilen hydro-edge from go-westy tire package with excellent brakes -- i knew we were going to...
  • Re: Brakes, reprise
    Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
    Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:32:09 -0700
    ...booster. >> >> I have seen twice............what looked like to be an ice pick >> hole poked into a vanagon plastic line....... >> for no reason 'at...
  • Re: Frydaye Follyes (sorry I missed it) - but check this out
    Historical mailing list - jimt
    Sat, 18 Dec 2004 15:28:34 -0700
    ...He got in a pickup just a little ways down the road and drove > off, just leaving the belly dump and the contractor to...
  • Re: Vanagon ABS
    Historical mailing list - Roger Whittaker
    Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:03:21 -0800
    ...he averted his gaze from me ... >> we both knew a bullet had been dodged -- >> >> but aside from that ... >> with the excellent rain and ice...
  • Re: LED lighting
    Historical mailing list - Robert Stewart
    Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:01:04 -0500
    ...http://www.plasmaglow.com/fire-ice-led-tailgate-bar/ > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Robert...
  • Re: Snow tires... 2 or 4?
    Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
    Sun, 7 Feb 2010 14:09:51 -0600
    ...My wife, driving the > Honda with Blizzaks doesn't even notice the snow and ice and slush and > drives merrily on her way. I...
  • Fun's over (ie.Trip report) Longish
    Historical mailing list - Nathaniel Merrill
    Mon, 12 Oct 1998 12:05:00 -0700
    ...Not bad considering how much s--t was stuffed in the back of that bus! So with one more passenger (the friend we picked...
  • Re: LED lighting
    Historical mailing list - Jeff Schwaia
    Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:54:30 -0800
    ...http://www.plasmaglow.com/fire-ice-led-tailgate-bar/ -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Robert...
  • The 205/70-14 tire you really want!
    Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
    Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:38:25 -0500
    ...I have a 91 > Carat, and didn't feel comfortable trying, so I picked > up a SA tire carrier that Peter Jones of V...
  • Re: My New Ride
    Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
    Wed, 1 Apr 2009 12:16:26 -0500
    What a coincidence! The same thing just happened to me! And mine has the ice cube trays! Jim On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at...
  • Re: New Canvas Adventure
    Historical mailing list - Bess's Buddies
    Mon, 31 Dec 2001 11:03:22 -0800
    ...I resorted to using an ice pick to pre-punch the holes before >inserting the screws. This helped. > >The canvas is heavier and coarser...