Date:         Mon, 6 Mar 2000 18:47:52 -0800
Reply-To:     David Marshall <vanagon@VOLKSWAGEN.ORG>
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From:         David Marshall <vanagon@VOLKSWAGEN.ORG>
Subject:      Re: say your syncro camper isn't quiiiiite the 4x4 off-road campe
              r you'd wanted??? :)
Comments: To: HERMANN DE BOER <hdeboer@BSSD.NET>
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Not all Unimogs cost a house... mine was just under $5,000 Canadian... just
have to get it home now... anyone care to share a container with me?


At 08:39 AM 06/03/2000 -0600, HERMANN DE BOER wrote:
> Two years ago while camping in snow at the North Rim/ Grand Canyon I spoke
>with a Belgian traveljournalist driving a similar looking  off-road camper
>on a Unimog basis. He said that he,his wife and son had been traveling the
>world for four years, crossed seven deserts, and were on their way to Tierra
>del Fuego. Their truck  was a white 4x4 Diesel Unimog long-wheel-base with a
>custom made slide-out camping unit, and a Kawasaki dirtbike attached to a
>derrick in the rear. When asked how much this cozy vehicle cost him he said:
>several Ferraris and a Porsche. Humbled, I returned to my freezing cold
>5000$ Westy.
>
>Hermann de Boer
>87 GL Westy
>
>

--   David Marshall -                    - Quesnel, BC, Canada   --
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