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Subject:Re: HELP! Need Westy Luggage Rack Section
From:Loren Busch
Date:Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:46:55 -0700

And I assume you are talking to the insurance company for the local power
company?  They should be taking the load on this one.

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Michael Wagner <mwagner628@comcast.net>wrote:

> Folks -
> I had a very unusual accident yesterday in my Westy. Came over a rise in
> the road going about 35 MPH and ran into electric wires that were pulled
> taut across the road right about neck level from a downed power pole (no I
> wasn't out driving in a storm - it was a perfectly normal sunny day).
> The cables impacted the van about 1' up from the bottom of the windshield,
> then scraped up the glass until they reached the roofline, and then ripped
> the luggage rack in half, tore about 6" into one side of the pop-top, and
> then snapped. After the snap, the cables scratched the passenger side, and
> whiplashed around the back and broke out the rear window. Very scary all
> around.
> SO - I am in desperate need of a replacement luggage rack section of the
> pop-top. Please let me know if you have one for sale, or know of one in a
> junk yard. Thank you very much.
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