I owned a rusty 64 Ghia that I paid $50 for w/o an engine and had a
Porsche Super 90 motor to stick in there for a while.  Interesting
car to say the least with 356B rims and Michelin XAS radials on
it(don't remember if I had an old EMPI camber compensator on the back
axle or not!).  didn't realize how trusty it was until I was driving
down to ST. Louis on Thanksgiving to be with my parents and all of a
sudden a rather wet rain storm was passing by.  Didn't think too much
about it until I hit the brakes to exit on to I-70 and a wall of cold
water rushed upon the back of my calf muscles.  Seeing no harm in the
following action, as I made a clockwise 270 degree turn around the
cloverleaf, I simply opened the driver's door at 35mph and watched
all that water scatter out the opening.  I think Isaac Newton
would've been proud, but when I told my parents of this, they howled
for 5 minutes straight.

DM&FS

At 08:40 PM 2/2/2007, Jim Felder wrote:

>On Feb 2, 2007, at 8:00 PM, Ronald Michaels wrote:
>>  while I was waiting for the pump to thaw out I
>>thought about the time I spilled 5 gallons of latex paint in the
>>floor of my
>>bus at that same house.  I parked the bus with the side door side
>>sloping
>>down and hosed out the entire floor to wash out the paint.
>
>On several occasions, I got a pony into my 69 bus (pony content--
>years ago, long story, don't ask. The essential tool in this case was
>a short lead to pull the pony in). Of course the pony would always
>fill the floor with a mess by the time the pony and daughter were
>delivered to wherever they were going. But--no problem! Park on a
>slope and hose it out as Ronald did.
>
>I miss the utter simplicity of those things.
>
>But I love my vanagons (vanagon content) on the road better than
>anything.
>
>Jim
>
>
>
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