It seems that John is the 'can do' man.  I propose, we must find all the possible items that can be fabricated and see what he may come up with.  You will be surprised what a 'can do' man can really do.  It may be stainless exhaust pipes and mufflers, with all the hangers that would need, brackets, modification of existing parts, some nice bicycle holder, kayak rack, bull bar for the front, towing equipment, etc.   All made of nice stainless pipes and stainless bolts and nuts.  I just mentioned a few things that came to mind.  The List will make a longer list.
Zoltan

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: metalworks 
  To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM 
  Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 8:34 AM
  Subject: watertank fill outlets

  dear waterboxers
  hello ive been on your list for a while now
  i dont have a vanagon. but my parents had every model made when they were made.
  from the barf orange westy right up to a 90 
  fully loaded blue westy new.
  im a ghia man and this post about crappy 
  parts strikes home to me. you think your parts
  are hard to find!
  well lets get to the point being burnt on parts 
  made me go into bussiness making repro
  impossible to find ghia stuff.and i havnt got a complaint yet.(because i dont waste time on junk)
  if some waterboxer kind person could send me this 
  watertank part to be remade i will see if i can get 
  it fabed
  up  and made not like some junk !@#$
  that you wouldnt want on any car.or van.....

  thanks
  john copello
  metalworks@volcano.net  

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