Maybe "they" used it as leverage to adjust the tension on the alternator
belt
.... and just set it down somewhere convenient at the time.

bob

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Robert Fisher <garciasghostvw@gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
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