I'm new here - age 57 and working on getting my first Westy. My first car was a '66 442 Olds, but then I abandoned the drag racing fantasy. I had a '68 beetle back in the day - with a big peace symbol taking up the back window. It ran great even after a rock fell off a Rocky Mountain and did in the windshield and made it go down the road not-quite- straight. Then I had a friend with a '68 bus that a bunch of us took to rock concerts and which got searched on a regular basis. Go figure. Much later, a friend of mine with a '71 bus wanted to go cross-country to ski at Brian Head, UT. Thought we were going to have to back it up the mountain in reverse, but finally crawled up. Have wanted a bus ever since, but wasn't even allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia (3 years) and when I got to the Navajo rez, needed a 4WD (didn't know about syncros) and ended up with a Blazer, followed by another Blazer. When I went back to school recently I met a friend with a Westy and that was all it took to rekindle the old desire for a bus. |
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