why do i feel like i've been attacked?  you don't have to be brutal to be
honest.  i got responses from many listmembers on this one and none of them came
close to the negativism of yours.  if you don't have any faith in this vehicle,
then don't make me feel like a fool for mine.  i understand that you're just
trying to be honest and perhaps save me some trouble, but the whole shitass tone
of your message makes me sick.  thank god for the rest of the list, because if i
had to depend only on your advice, i'd be nowhere.  did you take a look at my
webpages to see that i'm capable of more than an oil change before indirectly
calling me a 'wannabusser?'  i hate seeing posts like yours.

> You're doomed to failure.

lighten up.
chris

Jeff Stewart wrote:

> In a message dated 00-02-16 11:17:38 EST, you write:
>
> <<  please have a look see and maybe help a
>  > novice get started on restoring his dream barge.  >>
>
> This is why I always hate to see someone who buys a Split/Bay/Vanagon thats a
> basket case for a few hundred bucks ( and I hope you didn't pay much for this
> one) with grandiose ideas of restoring it. You are doomed to failure. This is
> an enormous task, and if its your only transportation, next to impossible.
> Putting bondo on this would only make a slight and very temporary improvment
> in appearance, and, as others have said, it may be downright unsafe. My
> advice to all those wannabusers: save your money until you can afford a
> decent one. You will only end up throwing away money on a project vehicle
> like this one. You'll lose interest, money, and time and will most likely end
> up having the whole mess towed away to the boneyard. It would take a
> professional to restore this, and quite honestly, I doubt any professional
> would would see any value in doing so. Sorry to be so brutally honest, but I
> think I speak the truth.       Jeff S.  (Now doing the second restoration on
> a '76 Westfalia- first one done with bondo)