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Subject:Re: rear wipers
From:Jeffrey Olson
Date:Tue, 13 Feb 2007 14:22:50 -0700

Isn't one of the best feelings cruising down the freeway, headband
holding back long hair, leaning forward into the Grateful Dead as it
blasts out of the six-speaker system, all curtains closed???  Or is this
a fond memory of spent youth?

Jeff
Martin, SD - where it just broke zero degrees...

Maggie Dew wrote:
> I use it to display my stickers ;>)   and it is covered with a curtain on
> the inside.
>
> On 2/13/07, mike . <mwmiller@cwnet.com> wrote:
>>
>> What do you use it for?
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2/13/07 12:26 PM, "Maggie Dew" <wildebus@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>>
>> > Umm, you guys use the back window to see out of?
>> >
>> > Maggie
>> >
>> >
>> > Date:    Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:10:34 -0800
>> > From:    BenT Syncro <syncro@GMAIL.COM>
>> > Subject: Re: rear wipers (was RE: Quick... Before my parents get
>> home....
>> >
>> > On 2/13/07, John Bange <jbange@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> I suspect it's intended to be more useful in keeping crud off the
>> rear--
>> >> hence the additional complication of the rear washer gear.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Yep, the aerodymic brick of a Type II T3 Transporter (and camper)
>> sucks
>> up
>> > all the road crud and spins it into a bunch of tiny tornados. Some of
>> them
>> > slam up against the rear hatch and desposits a certain percentage of
>> their
>> > profits on the back window. Result -- vannihilation of your rear view
>> via
>> > the glass. A little push on dee handle up front and squirto/wipo
>> cleans
>> dee
>> > glass.
>> >
>> >
>> > BenT
>>
>>
>>
>
>

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