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Subject:Re: FOR SALE: '82 Vanagon w/'98 Jetta TDI Engine
From:Joseph Fortino
Date:Wed, 31 Aug 2005 08:28:43 -0700

benT ?is your leg short on one side? someone needs to help this poor bus, it looks as
if it was just used and abused. :(

whats the NOS knob for up front?

-----Original Message-----
From: John Bange <jbange@GMAIL.COM>
Sent: Aug 31, 2005 7:30 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: FOR SALE: '82 Vanagon w/'98 Jetta TDI Engine

On 8/31/05, Joe Federici <joefederici@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> Did anyone notice the block of wood leaning on the gas peddle.

Yeah, I asked about that and got a rather cryptic private reply:

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John Bange wrote:

>What's with the wood block glued to the accelerator? Driver's leg a half
>inch too short to press the accelerator all the way down?

More or less. It's advantageous.

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Apparently, it's "advantageous".
Ooooooooo-kay.......