I thought about that (or something like it). It would go a long way toward
explaining the location but I can't see that the van has ever had any body
work done to it... and it needs some. Aside from that it looks like
something you'd use for body work on a tank (or a Model T).
You can't see it in that pic (now that I think of it I have a better shot of
the thing itself somewhere but that pic showed where I found it), but the
end is well-hammered, like the end of a cold chisel.
Maybe I need to find an internet forum of really old dudes and post there. :
) I'd probably get arrested walking through the local nursing home with it,
eh?
The Vanagon evidently has a lot of good places to hide a murder weapon...
put it behind the brake reservoir and nobody'd ever find it. : /

Cya,
Robert

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Jerome A Perkins
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 8:57 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: FW: Can somebody identify/explain these?

Looks like a body spoon to me:

http://www.eastwood.com/autobody/dent-repair/hammers-dollies/long-curved-bod
y-spoon-model-1054.html

(Needs a bit of polishing!)

Jerome