http://www.panlogic.net/yellowsnow/peeindex.html

When someone says P- Mail they really mean it.

Stan Wilder
Engine Ceramics
214-352-4931
www.engineceramics.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Fisher" <refisher@MCHSI.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 7:42 PM
Subject: Re: If stuck in snow pull tab to open (gotta see this)

> 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
> > Planned insanity is best.
> > Remember that sanity is optional.
> > http://www.tactical-bus.info (tech info)
> > http://www.westydriver.com
> >
> >
> > --
> > No virus found in this incoming message.
> > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.
> > Version: 7.0.298 / Virus Database: 265.6.4 - Release Date: 12/22/2004
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > No virus found in this outgoing message.
> > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.
> > Version: 7.0.298 / Virus Database: 265.6.4 - Release Date: 12/22/2004
>
>
> --
> No virus found in this incoming message.
> Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.
> Version: 7.0.298 / Virus Database: 265.6.4 - Release Date: 12/22/2004
>
>

--
No virus found in this outgoing message.
Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.
Version: 7.0.298 / Virus Database: 265.6.4 - Release Date: 12/22/2004