Date:         Tue, 1 Aug 2000 10:22:36 -0700
Reply-To:     Mike Harrnacker <harrnack@yahoo.com>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Mike Harrnacker <harrnack@yahoo.com>
Subject:      Re: One of the last 6 Vanagons ever made
Comments: To: "Tom L. Neal" <jneal@netcom.com>
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If my leaky memory serves me, I think there was a run
of 1500 "Limited Last Edition" Vanagons produced in
Europe for 1992.

He may have one of the last Vanagons imported to the
U.S. though...

Mike Harrnacker

--- "Tom L. Neal" <jneal@netcom.com> wrote:
> We "camped" at an RV park in McCloud, CA, last
> weekend so we could ride
> the dinner train around the flank of Mt. Shasta. A
> beautiful white Westie
> camped near us with the owners attending the Square
> Dance and Lumberjack
> weekend festivities.  The owner picked it up in
> Frankfurt in 1991 and
> believed it to be one of last 6 Vanagons built.  He
> and his wife took it
> back to Europe once in the course of piling up
> 169,000 miles "living" in
> it for the equivalent of about 2 years.
>
> They have customized the surfaces substantially.
> Side step rail added.
> Paper roll/plate/napkin/magazines/etc holders here
> and there.  Dashboard
> unit. Pretty interesting.
>
> He indicated it had been quite reliable.  Delving
> further, the trannie had
> failed in Pennsylvania, and a water pump almost died
> in Spain.  But the
> van was maintained by a German mechanic at Tillman
> Motors in Santa Rosa
> who really knows what he's doing, which is the key
> for these machines.
>
> Cheers, Tom Neal '87 Syncro
>
>
>


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Mike Harrnacker
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