Yeah, but were they *good* jerks?

Cya,
Robert

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stan Wilder" <wilden1-1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 4:53 PM
Subject: Re: If stuck in snow pull tab to open (gotta see this)

>I think that you'll find elongated holes in the modular frame under those
> cars.
> The slot is to catch water so the frame will rust out within ten years and
> to hold tie down chains in while transporting on tow trucks.
> If you give those hooks a good "Jerk" it'll rip that 18 gauge frame wide
> open.
> In this case it appears that the situation got out of hand pretty quick
> because, well! We had plenty of Jerks.
>
> Stan Wilder
> Engine Ceramics
> 214-352-4931
> www.engineceramics.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "jimt" <camper@TACTICAL-BUS.INFO>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 6:05 PM
> Subject: Re: If stuck in snow pull tab to open (gotta see this)
>
>
> Went back and forth on that trying to figure out what they were fastened
> to.
> When you look at the section left on the vehicle it is definitely frame
> member which should have meant the tie down point.
> Yet when you look a the bumper section you see what appears to be a tie
> down
> point but definitely is not strong enough.  Is suspect that the vehicle
> had
> bogged into and packed in solid.  I would not have attempted to pull that
> vehicle out.  I would have been jacking and digging first.  Spent to many
> years in frozen climates to make that mistake.  Here in balmy colorado we
> are supposed to hit 2 degrees tomorrow.  I think somebody sent minnesota
> weater down here.
>
> jimt
>
> On 12/22/04 4:01 PM, "Robert Fisher" <refisher@MCHSI.COM> wrote:
>
>> Unbelievable. There were, what, 5 guys standing around and they couldn't
> get
>> that little POS off of that little hump of snow? When I was in 9th grade
>> a
>> few of us (five or six) got full of ourselves and 'rearranged' two
> teacher's
>> cars; picked one up and flipped it round the other way where he was
> parallel
>> parked, and put another up on the sidewalk- small cars like that...
>> If there was a 'Darwin Award' for car owners, these numbnuts would get at
>> least an honorable mention. (Can I say numbnuts?)
>> Maybe it's 'cause I'm in a bad mood (nah), but I got no sympathy for
>> these
>
>> morons. Jeez. In fact, I think watching that made me feel a little
>> better.
>> : )
>>
>> Cya,
>> Robert
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Doug in Calif" <vanagon@ASTOUND.NET>
>> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 1:46 PM
>> Subject: If stuck in snow pull tab to open (gotta see this)
>>
>>
>> Well, they dont make em like they used to.
>>
>> Kind of makes you feel a bit more warm and fuzzy riding around in your
> (for
>> the most part) all steel with little plastic, (well constructed) vanagon.
>>
>> Doug
>>
>> http://users.ca.astound.net/dougfayne/ifstuckinsnowpulltabtoopen.wmv
>>
>>
>
> ........................................
> jimt
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