RE: Drove mine, too! And covering the car.

["Erkson, Toby" <toby.erkson@intel.com>]

I guess with Spring and everything blooming the VWs are coming out of
hibernation as well :)

While my baby was inactive I made a cover for her.  I got one of those
generic
blue tarps and draped it over her.  Then I folded, tucked and basically
custom
fitted the tarp to sort of mold around her and secured the fit using metal
grommets.  You can get a grommet kit from camping places (I got mine at G.I.
Joes) and easily place them where you want -- just need a hammer and a hard
surface, like a concrete driveway.  I put all my grommets at the bottom of
the
tarp and threaded a thin nylon rope through them to act as a drawstring.  I
put
a loop at both ends of the rope and secured them to each other with a bungee
cord at her rear so I could wrap the bungee around the exhaust header or
stinger
support.  The bungee cord also helps keep the cover together when it needs
to be
wrapped up for storage.  Works great, even when it's *really* blowin'.
   Toby Erkson
   air_cooled_nut@pobox.com  <-- Please use this address for email
   '72 VW Squareback 1.6L bored and stroked to 2.0L, Berg five-speed
   '75 Porsche 914 1.8L, ORPCA member
   Portland, Oregon, http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/8501/


>-----Original Message-----
>There must be something in the air, because I drove my 73 
>square for the
>first time in a while a couple of days ago....
> It
>is no longer under the shade of a car port, so that sort of 
>bums me out,
>and it got rained on for the first time in two years the other 
>day, so no
>telling where we have leaks.