i met a foursome driving a western road trips van in aspen. my wife and i were having lunch in ours, and these folks asked us if "we knew anything about these vans". apparently their ecu was buzzing, all through the night with the van off. it was an 87-88 westfalia. i had no idea why an ecu would buzz, but i told him that the "black box" was very important and that he should call the rental company. of course i'm not knocking western road trips, but i've always wondered what was wrong with the ecu. otherwise it seemed like a pretty solid and clean van. aaron '87 syncro gl -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Bob Stevens Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 7:02 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: Vanagon In Autoweek Magazine - August 1, 2005 That is very cool! Thanks Brucue. http://www.autoweek.com/article.cms?articleId=102839 bob ----Original Message Follows---- From: Bruce Nadig <motorbruce@HOTMAIL.COM> Reply-To: Bruce Nadig <motorbruce@HOTMAIL.COM> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Vanagon In Autoweek Magazine - August 1, 2005 Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 18:55:47 -0500 I can't believe that nobody has mentioned this yet. The August 1, 2005 issue of Autoweek has an brief blurb on Vanagons. There is even a picture of a beautiful blue Westy that is the same color as my van Vincent. The article is about summer road trips, and the section on Vanagons (and a EuroVan) begins on page 24. The article is about how great the Vanagon (especially the Westy) is for road trips and camping. The article begins: "The best-known secret of the RV community is the humble and ubiquitous Volkswagen van." There is a picture of a Vanagon Westy and a EuroVan. The article talks about an outfit in Salt Lake City called Western Road Trips. It was started by two rock climbers that found the Vanagon to be the perfect climbing assault vehicle. They started the company that rents out VW campers (the company owns eight Westy Vanagons and one Westy EuroVan). It is nice to get some positive press from the mainstream media. I'm just disappointed that they left out any mention of John Wallace. Cheers, Bruce motorbruce@hotmail.com |
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