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Subject:Re: RIP Click (or was he Clack?)
From:Rocket J Squirrel
Date:Mon, 3 Nov 2014 17:49:14 -0800

"The question was "A man has a VW Bus that won't climb up his driveway
due to slick ice and snow conditions.  He opens up the hood in the back
and makes one adjustment and returns to the driver's seat and now the
vehicle makes it up the driveway....what did he do in the engine
compartment?"

I give.

--
Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
Bend, Ore.

On 11/03/2014 12:46 PM, Max Wellhouse wrote:
> On 11/3/2014 2:38 PM, The Bus Depot wrote:
>> Tom Magliozzi, the older half of "Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers"
>> on Car Talk passed away today at 77. Always loved that show. Had no
>> idea he was already 75 when he retired.  Sorry for the non Vanagon
>> content.
>>
>> Ron Salmon
>> The Bus Depot, Inc.
>> www.busdepot.com
> Ron, the way those guys dissed the Vanagon, I don't think nyone would
> mind too much.  Their show was a classic and I spent many an hour
> howling over their schtick......  even if they did steal that law firm
> thing(Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe) from the Marx Brothers.
>
> They did do a trivia question once that I actually guessed(but never
> sent in anything official). The question was "A man has a VW Bus that
> won't climb up his driveway due to slick ice and snow conditions.  He
> opens up the hood  in the back and makes one adjustment and returns to
> the driver's seat and now the vehicle makes it up the driveway....what
> did he do in the engine compartment?
>
>
> The answer is classic, but then most of us have tried it a time or
> two......
>
> DM&FS