In a message dated 8/6/2003 11:41:06 AM Pacific Daylight Time, vw4x4@FYI.NET
writes:

> Ben,
> You have a good memory.....  I was the one who called him that.....
> He did kill a Syncro.... rust free for that matter, that now I would pay
> good
> money for, but the damage is done.  I've really ment no harm, and I
> think everyone knows that......
>                       Eric
> P.S.   Do you remember the Pittsburgh Water story?

Eric,

It will make you sick to discover that we have a lot of practically rustfree
Vanagons (and some Syncros) which meet the same fate simply because they are
worth more in pieces to a partsyard than as a whole. Just this week, my parts
guy cut-up a perfectly undamaged 85 Vanagon just because it was an automatic.
Worth about $800 intact to him. Worth about $3K in parts not counting the body.

And no I do not recall the Pittsburgh Water Story. I only brought up the
Syncro killer story because Otmar laughs about it whenever he talks about it.
Noone is upset about it. That's what I call Otmar whenever I run into him.

BenT