very cool
another vanagon friendship made -
gosh - i think i am going to cry -
*turning away from screen now so the spys who watch me through my camera
will not see *
merry christmas to all and to all a good night
regards

On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 5:32 PM, JRodgers <jrodgers113@gmail.com> wrote:

> Friday afternoon last - I was working on my van with the distributor
> problem - which is parked at the curb where it died in front of my house
> ( my other van is in the driveway). A black car with very black windows
> rolled slowly by, as if checking things out. A bit further down the
> street, it stopped, backed up to my spot and stopped. Some fellow in his
> mid-late 40's got out, said "I see I'm not the only one to be crazy
> enough to own one of the vans - but to have TWO?" He laughed and
> introduced himself.
>
> Turned out his Father lives down the same street near the opposite end -
> and I had never met the man (his father was driving the black car) - AND
> the gentleman I was talking to had an '85 Westy in the garage and the
> spring was broken(so to speak). We chatted and it turned out he was to
> drive to Knoxville for Christmas - and the van was spewing gas, and they
> just happened to see me and stopped to ask if I knew maybe what might be
> wrong. Because of his schedule (motivational speaker - very busy)  - he
> already ordered a rental car to drive to Knoxville,  and a tow truck to
> take the van to a garage. I asked if he would care for me to take a look
> at it.
>
> While I had the hatch open the tow truck arrived. The man asked the
> driver to wait a few minutes - and I poked around on the engine. I had
> him turn on the ignition - and fuel spewed from the left injector
> assembly. Switch off - grabbed a screw driver - tightened the hose
> clamps all around - boy were they loose. Checked the rest - had him test
> it - all was fine. He fired it up and let it idle - all the while giving
> the tow truck driver a very nice tip for the effort.
>
> He thanked me - and I wished  him a merry Christmas and he was on his
> way -with a wallet much fatter for Christmas than it would have been!
>
> Some days you just gotta do what ya gotta do!!
>
> John
>

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