On 6 May 2005 at 20:41, Joel Walker <jwalker17@EARTHLINK.NET> wrote: > > This fall (early October), I saw this Joker at the Little Bighorn > > National Monument in South Dakota: > > http://rob.quimp.com/gallery/bighorn/IMGP1189 > > one really neat thing about that trailer ... it uses the same tires > and wheels as the syncro bus pulling it! :) which means if you get > serious flat tires, you can rob the trailer, leave it on the side of > the road and make it back to civilization for more tires. ;) looks to > me like a Westfalia trailer ... they used to make stuff like that. > don't know if they still do. but it was very costly to get one shipped > over here. :( I too saw this unit when it was in Victoria last summer. I *think* it was a Westfalia trailer, but I can't be sure - it has the name "Safari" on the side. There were so many things to drool over on the van, I don't remember. Here are some more pics of the rig, including the engine bay, which I was most interested in... http://members.shaw.ca/vwdiesel/Other/ Shawn Wright http://zuiko.sls.bc.ca/~swright '85 Jetta D '88 Westy 2.1L, soon to be 1.6TD 5 speed (see progress at http://members.shaw.ca/vwdiesels) '82 Diesel Westy |
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