Date:         Fri, 6 May 2005 19:15:39 -0700
Reply-To:     Shawn Wright <swright@ZUIKO.SLS.BC.CA>
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From:         Shawn Wright <swright@ZUIKO.SLS.BC.CA>
Subject:      Re: Joker owner in SD this summer?
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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