In a message dated 7/23/2008 7:54:54 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
musomuso@GMAIL.COM writes:

http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/KitchenSeamRust.jpg/KitchenSeamRust-full;init:
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OMG. My worst nightmares are confirmed. Mine has the same external
appearance and doesn't like my lipstick on a pig(pig=rust not westfalia)  attempts at a
partial makeover. I'm Getting ready to start this project  with wire brushes,
POR 15, Bondo or sheet metal as the situation  dictates (please no threads
here), primer and Paintscratch paint in an  airless sprayer. This is a
preservation exercise only until my rig is ready for  a real paint job. I will touch up
any other problem areas (front quarter panel  to left side main body panel
and also footstep area on ingress/egress area at  front doors) with these
implements of reconstruction. My outside situation seems  ominously simple to repair
but I see the cancer that awaits me upon closer  interior inspection .Of
course, I have the GoWesty replacement fridge fan  to install and will check some
anomalies of the LED's and do a thorough list  approved Dometic rehab. What
will then follow will be the acquisition of a all  the components needed for a
2.5 Subie upgrade and then a real paint job. Semi  re-incarnation or
semi-reintarnation (Y'all see I'm from the Southern Rustbelt  area of ole Virginny!). I
must always speak highly of my old girl as she has  been as faithful as any
Westy on this list and will always do her best to  restore my wife's faith in
the Westy concept after a bastardized attempt at a  1982 Quantum intercooled
turbo Westy, ominously named by it's license  plates "Brokedown Palace" for it's
Dead Show expeditions; that forced  innumerable roadside camping and
subsequent financial hardships (you can't  buy Granny a pair of $2,500.00 track shoes
and expect her to run a 4 minute  mile!). I digress. I have an entire file
dedicated to the Dometic restoration  threads and the eternal battle against rust
and it's disgusting trail of  destruction in our vans. But for now it's off
too Floydfest via the  beautiful Blue Ridge Parkway for a few days of
trouble-free motoring and cranial  flush and fill! Enjoy your vans listees and I'll see
you on the Golden Road to  Unlimited Vanagon Devotion!

David Clarkson-Vanagonaut and eternal optimist
1990 Westy (253k-AKA "Old Faithful")

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