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Subject:Re: Junkyard adventures (was Re: Westy _curtain changes_,
Date:Tue, 17 Jan 1995 12:46:07 -0500

Pat, Joe ( and all other Westy manual owners):

why don't we pool our resources, and make copies of our manuals, and trade
with each other. In my humble (as compared to Joel's) data summarizing
skills I surmize the following manuals are currently owned by the following
subscribers

Pat Walsh- 78' Westy manual
Joe Clark- 68'-72' Westy Manual
Michael Heron- 1967 Westy Manual (approx. 40 pages tres detailed)

i like seeing Westy manuals from all years :):)

michael

>>>On Sat, 14 Jan 95, Pat ("Got any 12V stickers, man?") Walsh
>>><walshp@ippdsgi3.nawc-ad-indy.navy.mil> drooleth:
>>> Wow!  What a score on that parts manual!  If you're taking requests, I'd
>>> certainly appreciate a copy too.  It sounds chock full of the minutiae
>>> detail-obsesive owner/restorers such as myself covet.  ("Hi, my name is Pat
>>> and I admit to laboriously peeling the interior stickers from Westys in
>>> junkyards and to picking up used trim screws from junkers instead of using
>>> "newfangled" unoriginal ones from the hardware store.")  I could give you a
>>> copy of my '70 Westy manual (covers '71 too, I'm told), or volunteer to type
>>> up a summary of the changes shown through the years as indicated in your
>>> manual (for inclusion in the gopher).
>> Joe Clark respondeth:
>>I feel your pain, Pat.  Have you ever found yourself up to your neck in
>>fire-ants, trying to remove a siezed do-dad from a rusting hulk in a
>>tick-ridden junkyard, and said to yourself, "God I LOVE these cars!!"?
>Nope, can't say I've encountered fire-ants but last year I was in the nether
>reaches of a junkyard and the weeds and grass were so high I had to climb
>onto the tops of cars a couple of times to get my bearings as I searched for
>the front of the lot.  The most amusing yard, though, was one some friends
>and I went to as teenagers.  The owner was apparently a farmer, as there were
>(BIG) pigs roaming the place.  No sign to that effect, we were just startled
>to round a corner and come face-to-snout with one.
>
>Pat Walsh, '71 Westy, walshp@ippdsgi3.nawc-ad-indy.navy.mil

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