Date:         Tue, 27 Aug 2002 09:24:23 -0400
Reply-To:     SStones <sstones@IDIRECT.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         SStones <sstones@IDIRECT.COM>
Subject:      Vanagon For Sale. Toronto. Not Mine
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I pass this vehicle on my drive to work every day. It has been for sale for
at least a couple of months.
The body is very customized, Air-cooled, no lower grille (No AC I deduce).
The back end is quite nicely customized with low skirting (Which makes it
difficult to stick my head under and try to figure out what the engine is).
It is not a stock engine back there, the tail pipes are visible on the left
side of the van, one before the left rear wheel and one very artistically
coming through the skirting... A spoiler has been added to the rear of the
roof (Not the SA type that terminates at the rain gutters) with a third
brake light in it. It has one of those boomerang like T.V. antennas in
it.  A console between the front leather seats contains a T.V. and VCR for
the middle seat passengers. From the size of the speakers behind the
rearmost seat I'm going to assume that the stereo is impressive. The
instrument cluster has been totally replaced with a nicely made unit full
of VDO gauges. Ummmm.  What else do I remember about it? Oh, The "for sale"
sign covered up the VIN so I didn't get a chance to get the exact year or
anything... Really pretty rims that I don't recognize.  The dashboard
(Other than the instrument cluster) was basically shaped like a stock dash,
but had a plastic-wood grain panel and the word "Limited" on it...  Dunno
if this was some Wolfsburg/Tristar/Bluestar/etc. thing or what...

Anyway, it's not mine.  I can't speak for the owner, but the rust free
silver van certainly is an eye catcher with all the customization that
someone's given it.

The sign said      Tony (416) 588-7007 as a home number.  If you're
interested he'll likely know way more about it than I do.