Re: glass rear window

[Joe Elliott <jee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 1:15 AM +0000 5/31/03, alfa-digest wrote:
> Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 14:53:07 -0700
> From: Benjamin Kaupp <bkaupp@domain.elided>
> Subject: Re: glass rear window
>
> Volkswagen did this with their Karmann Ghia convertible (and probably
> others, but my brother happens to have a Ghia) and it seems like a
> pretty elegant solution. Of course, the back window costs more to
> replace than the engine, but...
>
> - -Ben Kaupp
> '78 Spider (I should be allowed to drive her some time in the next
> month or two)

I have to ask--is your brother allowed to drive his VW?

(I figure if there's anything more theoretically dangerous than a 
flimsy old ragtop, it'd be a flimsy old ragtop with a huge rear 
weight bias and a nasty German bite-you-in-the-ass swing axle rear 
suspension.)

Joe Elliott
'82 GTV-6 (with entirely too many glass windows, if you ask me)
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