George,
    The Syncro you went to look at must be mine................
                                LOL
                               Eric

George Goff wrote:

>In a message dated 11/30/04 3:08:26 PM, icecoldvw@HOTMAIL.COM writes:
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><< What is
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>worse for storing my van - exposing it to the elements or the humidity? >>
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>The humidity hands down.  With no chance to dry, the humidity will provide
>just the chemistry for rust to wreak havoc on your airframe.  It won't do the
>mechanicals or electricals any good either.
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>Years ago, I went to check out a Syncro to buy.  It was newer and had half
>the miles of my 2WD Sunroof.  Since the Sunroof had spent about eight Northeast
>winters outdoors and still was presentable, I had great hopes for the Syncro.
>The Syncro was a rust bucket.  It had been parked in one of those hillside
>garages seen around Pittsburgh which are sort of like bunkers half buried in the
>hillside and the garage had a dirt floor.
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>I was just talking to a friend and fellow Vanagon owner who worked at a
>rustproofing shop in the late seventies.  He said the business was incorporated to
>go bankrupt as soon as the lifetime rust-out warranties started to outpace the
>supply of new suckers.  He was there near the bitter end and whenever a
>customer in a rotted out Ford, waving the warranty would pull in, my friend was
>instructed to ask them if they parked the car in a garage.  When they responded
>in the affirmative, he had the unenviable task of getting out a magnifying task
>so that the customer could read the clause which made the warranty null and
>void if the car was parked in a garage.
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>George
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