This doesn't sound like the Classic is unlucky, it sounds like you need to stop pulling your Beetle and start driving it. BlackBerry service provided by Nextel -----Original Message----- From: JKi7886155@xxxxxxx Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 18:34:02 To:tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [tcb] Re: Trip report, addendum Dennis: Sorry to hear about Murray. There is something about the "Classic" that is unlucky for me, also. the first year, towing my '74 sedan with my El Camino, I misjudged the turning radius and on the way back into my driveway creamed the right side. Last year, towing it with my Vanagon, I creamed the left side on a post, in the RV camping area. As soon as I finish painting the new rear fenders, I hope to install them, with new running boards I bought at Nac. This year, I thought I would eliminate the jinx by only taking my Vanagon, with my Whizzer motorbike on the back. As I was packing up, to move to the show area, I forgot to lower the pop top and ran it into a large tree limb. We're talking new rear hinge (approx. $45), new canvas (approx. $200) and, some fiberglass work that I have not totally assessed yet. Oh well, it's only material things and I sure had a good time at the "Classic" every year. With your lift, maybe you can raise Murray up and get a pull on whatever bent and straighten it out, without too much difficulty. Best of luck Jack In a message dated 5/1/06 9:54:15 P.M. Central Daylight Time, coocoo@xxxxxxx writes: OK, Peter had to remind me of my trying to get Murray up the ramps and on to the trailer. I think my mind had just blocked out the painful memory. So, I set the ramps and for some reason came up and just smacked the shit out of the front of the bus. I mean SMASH, like a collision. I backed off and got out and looked, but I saw no damage. In retrospect, I think I smacked the steering box. In doing all this I somehow bent the clutch pedal. Maybe everything under there moved a little, I smacked it hard. Now I have almost no clutch pedal and I am sweating and cursing and hammering and prying... and there is Shirley, drunker than a sailor, laughing her ass off. She comes and stands over me and tells me how she screwed up the judging. I just bashed my bus and bent all kindsa stuff, I am pissed off at Dan for leaving and not helping me, I am now trying to drive my bus onto the trailer WITH NO #!@^*%: <mailto:#!@^*%> #! CLUTCH PEDAL and Shirley is telling me that she just drank FIVE BEERS!!! I love her dearly, so I hope she was too drunk to remember what I was saying during all this, because I am embarrassed. Thank you, Peter, I was almost happy for awhile. By the way, this all happened right in front of the guy whos bus won Best in Show, or something big. He had a wobbly crank pulley and Peter and I both told him not to drive it because it could damage the engine. He hooked a tow bar and towed it out. So here I am, an expert and then he watches be crash my bus into who knows what. He had the good manners to act like he didn't notice until I yelled something completely irrational like, "DID YOU JUST SEE ME WRECK MY MO@#!$%^**(!!!ING: <mailto:MO@#!$%^**(!!!ING> BUS?!!!" He said yes, and got away from me as fast as he gracefully could. "YEAH, AND ANOTHER THING, BESIDES NOT DRIVING YER BUS WITH A WOBBLY CRANK PULLEY, DON'T SMASH IT INTO YOUR #@!^*#@! TRAILER!!!! As Rodney Dangerfield often said, "I'm all right now, but I had it bad for awhile there".