'from my cold dead fingers' is the well known phrase -
'they'll get my vanagon when they pry the keys from my cold dead fingers.'

How could they dare to ask us to destroy what amounts to a Family Member -
our so loved vanagons !

And people can be bought ?   Rather insulting almost.

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Rodgers" <inua@CHARTER.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 7:55 AM
Subject: Re: gov't sure fire way to destroy an engine Re: about oil
additives

> Ain't NOBODY gonna touch my Vanagon!!! Not 'til I'm dead!!
>
> And when that happens,  I am to be strapped into the seat with the seat
> belt, and out in the pasture we will be rolled into the hole together -
> to be seen no more!!!
>
> John Rodgers
> 88 GL Dirver
>
>
> Scott Daniel - Turbovans wrote:
>> could you imagine being a tech at a car dealership and intentionally
>> running
>> an engine until it's ruined like this ?
>> They make it sound so clinical too.
>> 'if the engine still will start, repeat steps 3 through 6' or whatever it
>> was.
>> until you are sure the specimen is truly and finally dead.
>> sicko.
>>
>> makes me think of stupid things like a condemmed prisoner needing to
>> be in
>> decent health before they will electrocute them.
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Robert Fisher" <refisher@MCHSI.COM>
>> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 7:53 AM
>> Subject: Re: gov't sure fire way to destroy an engine Re: about oil
>> additives
>>
>>
>>> Good grief.
>>>
>>> "LOL. Anytime a wiki is cited as an authority, the argument has been
>>> lost."
>>> - Mike S
>>>
>>> : /
>>>
>>> Cya,
>>> Robert
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On
>>> Behalf Of
>>> Mike S
>>> Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 7:33 AM
>>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>>> Subject: Re: gov't sure fire way to destroy an engine Re: about oil
>>> additives
>>>
>>> At 04:33 AM 7/28/2009, Andrew Grebneff wrote...
>>>> Sodium silicate is not "liquid glass". Glass is supercooled liquid
>>>> silicon dioxide.
>>>
>>> "Sodium silicate is the common name for a compound sodium metasilicate,
>>> Na2SiO3, also known as water glass or liquid glass." -
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_silicate
>>
>>