Date:         Wed, 17 Jan 2001 23:22:17 -0800
Reply-To:     Craig Spaeth <spaeth@GORGE.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Craig Spaeth <spaeth@GORGE.NET>
Subject:      Re: vanagon Digest - 17 Jan 2001 - Special issue (#2001-88)
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> Date:    Wed, 17 Jan 2001 21:20:10 -0500
> From:    "Michael E. Pidcoe" <pidcoe@SPRINTMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Factory alloys - Canadian?
>
> Howdy.  There was a Vanagon brochure on ebay last week that showed a van
> with what looks like an alloy wheel with 12, golf-ball sized, holes in
> it.
> The picture is still there at
> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=537107559
> Does anyone know what these wheels are and if they are still available?
> Thanks,
> Mike Pidcoe
> '82 diesel (Hanagon-Blue)
> '86 syncro (suby powered)
> '74 Thing (daily driver until diesel wandered into the fold)
>

I met a guy this summer windsurfing down at the hatchery here in the Gorge. He had a
white westy with those wheels on it. He was European, I can't recall from where, and
had brought his vanagon over with him to Canada to do some touring. He was going to
be passing through the states for a while but he said they would only let him have
his van here for a certain amount of time. Anyway he swore they were factory and he
bought the van new with them on it. I had never seen them either. They actually had a
VW stamp on them.
Craig
the Gorge VW club

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