Are you saying that Cosmoline and the preserved jeeps were real, as in
they existed?  I thought both were, as you said, legendary in the sense
of mythical, not as in having attained a revered status.  Hmmmmmmmmmmm
................ .  David McNeely

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 5:54 AM, Tom Stone wrote:

> Interesting!  I just listened to this week's Car Talk.  Click and
> Clack were on a rant about the legendary Cosmoline that preserved the
> army surplus Jeeps that many of us were saving our pennies to purchase
> back in our distant youths.   Stoddard Solvent was a primary
> ingredient of Cosmoline as well.  Could it be that lavish doses of
> WD-40 will preserve our Vanagons?
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> Tom
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Beierl To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Sent: Mon, Oct 26, 2009 8:48 pm
> Subject: Re: [VANAGON] another WD40 use
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> At 06:10 PM 10/26/2009, Ken Lewis wrote:
>> My grandma once told me it was originally used to relieve arthritis!
>> Just
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>> spray it on.
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>> I was a lot younger then. PVD (preVANAGON days).
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> My sainted Grandpa once told me, age seven or so, that I was full of
> stewed prunes.  I was thirty before I figured it out.
> The major component of WD-40 is a high grade of mineral spirits
> formally known as Stoddard Solvent.  I like the smell, too.
> Yrs,
> D