I�know it's a strange title but read on: 
Tonight there was a loud knocking on the front door-it was my neighbor, who told me my Vanagon was down the street. 
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It was the 82 with the frozen engine. I walked down to where it stopped expecting the worst because I could see behind it was a nice looking Jeep. 
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When I got to the rear of the vanagon, it was up against three huge trash containers, the kind thew garbage truck lifts up. 
Nothing was damaged. How lucky is that!?
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The Vanagon rolled backwards about 100 yards down and across the street, if the garbage cans hadnt been there, the van would have crashed into the Jeep. 
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I remember stories like this have been told before on this list, but without such happy endings. 
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This is my friend Jack's fault. You don't know Jack- he's not a Vanagon owner, but builds sand rails using Vanagon and Bus transmissions. 
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He was trying to help me break the seized motor free, and asked if the handbrake was set. It was , I said, asking what that has to do with it? Apparently he went up and released the handbrake while I was in the garage, I don't know why. 
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But that was at six. Sometime in the last 5 hours it rolled backwards. It's very windy tonight- the wind must have helped get it rolling. 
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Robert
1982 Westfalia