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Subject:Re: Desperate for a High Top!
From:Jake de Villiers
Date:Wed, 1 Nov 2006 18:52:38 -0800

This is thre kind of outside the box thinking that VW used to do so well
before they went mainstream and stopped making vans.

You had to pop the hood anyway to fill the gas tank, so it was easy to add
some air at the same time.  Back in those days both tasks, plus wiping your
windshield and checking your oil,  would be done by a  gas station employee.

Now I know you're old enough to remember those!   :-)

On 11/1/06, Loren Busch <starwagen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> RE: US VW's from 1962 to 1979, used a hose connected to the spare tire's
> valve
> stem to pressurise the top of the windshield washer bottle.
> Now I had nothing to do with VWs in those days but this is one story that
> makes me ask if this is a joke.  You have to be kidding!!
>

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Jake
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