Wait, do any cars have fenders?  Karl Wolz (at whose house I am staying here
in sunny Phoenix) said fenders are things that keep the dirt off.  I thought
those were mud flaps.  But on bicycles it's fenders that keep the dirt off -
off your back, that is, not off the bike.

So what would a fender on a car be?

And what's it got to do with guitars?

The wheel arch, now that's what I'm going to get repaired at the pricey but
reliable Phoenix body shop that Karl took me to!

It may be Geek to you, Ben, but it's Vanagon geek.  I'm only a spelling geek
(but in English and French, not Greek), not a Vanagon geek.  Oh, yeah, and a
data geek, I'm one of those too.

Joy

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Joy Hecht

and Matilda, 1989 Burgundy Vanagon

For musings about life and the vanadventures:

http://users.rcn.com/jhecht/gypsy

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From: BenT Syncro [mailto:syncro@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 2:41 PM
To: Joy Hecht
Cc: Vanagon Mailing List
Subject: Re: fender parts

Joy,

Chris is just yanking your chain. He knows as well as most of us that you
meant the side pieces of your rear bumper.

Fender is just a guitar. =) Vanagons don't have "fenders" in the automotive
sense. The back area over the wheels is comonly called a rear quarter panel
as it is not removable. Front quatrter panel fo rhte fornt is my guess. VW
calls the area over the wheel as "wheel arches". That is the closest they
have to a fender.

<twang> <twang>

It's all Geek to me.

BenT