Rob,

BTDT.  You're going to need a rear bumper and brackets.  The brackets
will definitely have deformed with that impact.  I'm not a body man at
all, but I think you're going to be able to get away with the front end
being pulled out without much disassembly, since it looks like things
are pretty straight from the grill south.  See if you can't get the body
shop to fix that rust spot by the window molding while they're working
on it.

Karl

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of Rob Campbell
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 8:07 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: minor accident PICS

Here are some pics of the damage to go with previous post:

http://www.dokodemo.org/smooshed/

Its not horrible, but it is, as I hope you can see, certainly bad enough
that I want to repair it.

Someone already replied that I wasn't clear about the nature of the
wreck:

I was sitting in a long line of traffic, and a vehicle 6 cars back was
rear-ended very hard.  I was the 2nd to last vehicle in the chain
reaction.  The SUV in front of me was what gave my front that wrinkle,
but the car in front of her got away painlessly.

Thanks-

Rob Campbell
87 Westy, Seattle