Don,

Try your FLABS (friendly local auto body supply :-)

Don't give the Car Talk guys too hard a time, they're entertainers these
days. It's been a couple of decades (at least) since they had to turn
wrenches to earn a living. The show is also aimed at ordinary folks with
their daily drivers, not aficionados of fine classic automotive
craftsmanship like the folks on this list.

If their audience was classic car enthusiasts, you can bet they would
mention the body seam rust issue when they discuss Vanagons, since this is
about the only design problem in the vehicle that simply *cannot* be avoided.

If you keep it, it will rust... but it will probably still run. The only
Vanagons left on the road are the survivors, it's natural selection at
work. Now if we could only get them to breed in captivity...

Tim

At 08:41 AM 2/25/2005 -0700, don spence wrote:
>What is body panel adhesive and where do you get it?
>TIA
>On Thursday, February 24, 2005, at 10:00  PM, Automatic digest
>processor wrote:
>
>>Date:    Thu, 24 Feb 2005 22:55:02 -0600
>>From:    Robert Cardo <rrecardo@WEBTV.NET>
>>Subject: Re: Vanagon Seams
>>
>>Sand blast them clean with a spot sand blaster, and fill the seams with
>>body panel adhesive.
>>Never show rust in that area again.