When my van got rear ended by the F### truck I used a heavy tow chain
wrapped around the maple tree in my front yard and proceded to put holes in
the lawn from my tires.  Popped that rear right back out again.
(no living lawns were damaged or harmed as it was already dead from the
drought)

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Thinking very different
((Macs+Vanagons+tools-sanity)xWayToMuchTime)=???

On 12/23/04 4:46 AM, "Andrew Grebneff"
<andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ> wrote:

>> That vid is a few years old.
>> The dudes did not attach the towstrap to anything but the bumper cover
>> which is why it flexed so much.
>> 
>> A couple of my friends and I repeated the happenings with his soon to
>> be cubed cavalier.  Hooked the towstrap to the reinforced lip under
>> the bumper cover and used my van to yank. :D  Needless to say, we
>> ripped the rear off like that one.  It sure was fun though.
>> 
>> sudhir.
> 
> I used an 82 diesel LandCruiser Wagon once to straighten an 84
> Mitsubishi Galant Sigma that had  had a good shunt in the back. The
> left-rear door didn't shut on both clicks as the opening was
> shortened slightly (no visible kinks in the car's skin). So I ran a
> cable between the cruiser's towball and the Sigma's and gave it a
> series of heavy yanks with the Cruiser. I mean hard. It did the trick
> nicely, and what was a writeoff was once again a good usable car.
> --
> Andrew Grebneff
> Dunedin
> New Zealand
> Fossil preparator
> <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
> Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut
> 
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