Date:         Mon, 9 Feb 2004 16:50:02 +1100
Reply-To:     Stephen Overmyer <s.overmyer@UWS.EDU.AU>
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From:         Stephen Overmyer <s.overmyer@UWS.EDU.AU>
Subject:      Re: my ride to hospital in a Sprinter ambulance  (NVC)
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At 12:00 AM 9/02/2004 -0500, you wrote:

>last wed night i had a siezure again and was taken to the hosp in a
>ambulance.. something was strange about it as i was conscious towards the
>latter part
>of the ride, it didnt look like the local Ambulance company's  Ford based box
>van ambulances...  it was a Mercedes (freightliner) Sprinter van ambulance..
>im guessing its the first on their fleet..   no real vanagon content, but i
>thought if you have to go to the hospital, might as well go in highroof
>european
>style :<)
>

Well I sure hope you're on the mend now Chris....

My first and hopefully last trip to hospital in an ambulance
just over two years ago.
It was in a LWB VW T4 Syncro Ambulance.There's quite a
few of them here in Oz now,along with MB Sprinters and
F*rd Transit vans.
The Syncros tend to be in country locations as I was at the
time of needing one.
Thing was,I felt so ill at the time I didn't really get to appreciate
the vehicle I was in.I didn't even notice I was in a VW untill I was
being carried out at the hospital.

BTW,I had my first look at the VW LT35s just the other day.
They have just been introduced to Australia.There was a absolutely
huge cavernous high roof van and a single cab chassis truck
at a VW dealer.

All TDIs with service intervals of 22,500kms.
You'd make a mighty big camper out of one of these....:)
Quality of finish looks good.Funny to see a conventional tailshaft
on a VW however...(other than a syncro....)

Steve O
NSW Australia
'92 Transporter WBX Kombi
'00 Transporter Double Cab
'03 Transporter Double Cab (work truck)