Date:         Wed, 3 Aug 2005 20:11:59 -0700
Reply-To:     Tom Sinclair <neeemo@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Tom Sinclair <neeemo@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Vanagon In Autoweek Magazine - August 1, 2005
Comments: To: Bruce Nadig <motorbruce@HOTMAIL.COM>
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$115 per day? Wow! I've only spent $15 per day on my
bus. $15/day, every day--for five and a half years. At
least mine isn't drivable.

Tom
1986 Syncro Westy 2.5 TDI (running but not yet
drivable)

--- Bruce Nadig <motorbruce@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:

> 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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