Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 07:46:08 -0400
Reply-To: Alain Pierre Hovasse <aphovasse@HOME.COM>
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From: Alain Pierre Hovasse <aphovasse@HOME.COM>
Subject: Re: Vanagon Nirvana in Seattle
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Bryan
I don't have the actual address: but I recall that it's between Putney and
Wandsworth bridge, near the river. It was at the entrance to an industrial
park and it looked in fact like the guy rented their parking lot just before
you entered past a big metal gate on the right. Also, it was right around
the corner from a Harley Davidson shop. There won't be many of those in
Fulham. You can also look in the LOOT newspaper which is a buy and sell rag
which comes out 2 or 3 times a week and has listing for Campers. He used to
put his ads in there. Plus there are also some free newspapers for Aussies
and New Zealanders, which you can pick up at boxes near the underground,
airport etc.
on 6/12/00 3:28 AM, Bryan Shelander at bryanshelander@HOTMAIL.COM wrote:
> Hey Alain
>
> Any chance you still have an address for that Israeli dude in Fulham? I've
> contemplated shipping my camper to Europe, but the Aussie buy-sell method
> you mention sounds like it could be fairly economical. Add in the benefit
> of cruising the continent w/RHD, sounds fun(maybe dangerous;-)
>
> Aloha
> Bryan
> '85 ASI Riviera "Dulcinea del Tortuga"
> '98 Klein Pulse Pro hardtail
> blown out flip-flops
>
>
> Alain Pierre Hovasse wrote:
>
>> Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 20:37:58 -0400
>>
>> That reminds me: I recently moved from London England, where I had another
>> vanagon, not a westy but an amazing conversion nevertheless. Before I
>> bought
>> it privately, I did some research and found this israeli dude in Fulham who
>> bought and sold vw campers of all kinds. Must have had 20/30 there. I
>> talked
>> with him and his wife for about an hour getting all kinds of good info.
>> They
>> didn't really have what I wanted at the time (hard to believe) but I kept
>> in
>> touch with them from time to time as I looked at various models in the buy
>> and sell ads. He mostly bought and sold from traveling Australians, who buy
>> a camper in London, do a grand tour of Europe (always with a surf board or
>> two) for extended periods of time and then return, sometime to sell the
>> camper back to this same guy. He told me he loved those campers and
>> sometimes hated to sell them. In fact at that time, the British pound was
>> going through the roof and Aussies were staying away in droves.
>>
>> My vw was a converted passenger van and had sliding doors on each side. It
>> had one of those high roofs and swayed a bit in high winds. The inside
>> however, was totally totally amazing. Some perfectionist had built
>> cabinets,
>> sink and shelves and had the inside material all color coordinated in some
>> kind of scottish pattern. Sounds odd but it was very very nice. The
>> woodwork
>> was excellent.
>>
>> Ended up driving it all over France several times and even all the way to
>> Prague and back one summer. Man it was a good machine. It was dubbed The
>> Big
>> Pig: I had commented upon the very first drive that it handled like a pig
>> (it was an 86 with no power steering) and my young daughter made the
>> connection that it was a pig, and a pig it stayed.
>>
>> Our new one here in Toronto is an 87 Westy, white, more standardized
>> version. Lovely machine, itching to take it south.
>>
>> Enough from me
>>
>> Alain Pierre
>> on 6/11/00 2:26 PM, Ty Graham at tyg@OZ.NET wrote:
>>
>>> Having discovered Tom Meyer of Cycoactive is my neighbor, I am
>> approaching a
>>> state of Vanagon bliss. More Vanagons to look at, work on, and talk
>> about
>>> than I can almost handle.
>>>
>>> In my neighborhood, I could now start a "street of dreams" tour.
>>>
>>> My three
>>> Syncro Westy with max audio and video
>>> Doublecab with PZwo, OME and Eurospec mucking (_still_ not hot starting.
>>> thank you very much)
>>> Carat with ARB refer, lights, soon SA grille
>>>
>>> Tom's Westy one block away
>>> Subaru conversion
>>> custom hitch and rack
>>> cool, momentary sink switch install
>>> ...
>>>
>>> Steve H's ~5 blocks away
>>> 1 or more doublecabs -- almost always one for sale
>>> 1 singlecab
>>> sano 90 multivan
>>>
>>> Numerous other stock or practically stock Vanagons within walking
>> distance.
>>>
>>> To tie all this back to the subject line; Curt Cobain's house is just a
>> few
>>> blocks away also.
>>>
>>> Ty
>
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