Tony,
I think your post is screwed!
:)
Bill
-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Peet <tpvw@HOTMAIL.COM>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Date: Friday, July 16, 1999 3:15 PM
Subject: Screwing in the Van (F) (Long)

>Well, I did figure almost everyone on the list would open this one -- and I
>do promise to talk about screwing in the van -- but I wanted to use this
>occasion of getting your attention to briefly introduce myself to the list.
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>My name is Tony Peet and I live in Pacific Grove, California (next door to
>Monterey -- about 2 hours south of San Francisco). I basically couldn't get
>the idea of owning a Westy out of my head, so last spring I rented a '91
>from Roamin'Holidays in Albuquerque (Tom is a great guy) and explored a lot
>of the Anastazi ruins and just fell in love with the camper....
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>.....So I now own a '91 Syncro Westy which, after much research and many
>test drives, I decided to buy from J&R VW Vans in Reno, Nevada.  Basically
>all they do is buy/restore/refurbish Vanagons/Syncros/Westies and their own
>confidence and pride in their work -- along with their integrity -- really
>helped give ME the confidence to enter the world of (especially) Syncro
>ownership......(as did the existence/availability/experience of all of you
>in this Vanagon dot community).
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>I am not a mechanic, but I am a tinkerer and have access to some pretty
>smart VW folks at J&R, so my contributions to the list will be indirectly
>informed and in other areas of the Westfalia experience....
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>Now about screwing in the van.  I HIGHLY recommend it and I'm SURE almost
>everyone on the list can do it. Probably some of you already have!  All it
>takes is a certain willingness to explore, a curious and probing mind and
>body, AND.....
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>........a Phillips screwdriver! (Don't flame me yet, I'm not done.)
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>Last weekend I spent hours in the van screwing everything I could, and boy
>was everything really tight!  Wait till you experience the joy of screwing
>curtain snaps, curtain rails (especially on the hatch!), the chrome
'gutter'
>on the interior of the Westy where the pop top sits, plastic vents  - -
>there are things to screw EVERYWHERE!!! AND its REALLY SATISFYING after you
>have screwed them all!!! If you keep at it, you will discover things to
>screw that you had never imagined could be so loose. It might be the most
>satisfying and enjoyable thing you have ever done in the van, and you take
>great comfort in the fact that if you hadn't screwed them they would have
>eventually fallen apart!
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>Now maybe I should have mentioned up front that I hope no one opened this
>thinking that I was going to write about funny or clever or embarrassing
>sexual experiences in our campers.  Or even about OTHERS' embarrassing
>sexual experiences in THEIR campers. OR the LACK of these experiences. OR
>RUMORS about these experiences.  OR the desire to HAVE these experiences!
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>As I think about it, the title of my posting could have been misleading to
>some, so I'll think a little longer before I write next time.  I sure HOPE
>no one misconstrued  what I meant or feels like I wasn't clear about what I
>meant.
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>But maybe that sexual experiences thing would be a good thread sometime.
>Maybe for some Friday sometime......whaddaya think?  We could call it
>"Screwing in the Van!"
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>TGIF
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