In a message dated 10/22/02 1:49:31 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
FONGBALL@AOL.COM writes:

<< my right door closest to the right rear tire swings out like a regular
 passenger door and therefore clears the wider than stock vanagon rear tires
 without any problems. it does seem to be lower to the ground than most
 vanagons i've seen. it was also was painted in italy, might explain why the
 color does not appear to be stock german vanagon color. it does have a water
 cooled boxer engine. >>

Thank you for that clarification, Tim. No wonder the color did not match the
Tornado Red Carat that was parked near you. It's amazing what those brlliant
Italian paint maestros can do with a fancy paintjob. Even those fake side
grills look real. Who's your painter? I'd like to have flames painted on my
diesel Syncro.

By the way, how did those italians make your Vanagon look like an altered
Pontiac Fiero GT?!? Must have been a lot of painstaking Bondo work.

BenT
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