Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 10:22:19 -0700
Reply-To: "Skarloken, Donna S." <DSkarloken@REEDSMITH.COM>
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From: "Skarloken, Donna S." <DSkarloken@REEDSMITH.COM>
Subject: Re: Vanagon In Autoweek Magazine - August 1, 2005
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I have my parents' 1974 Westfalia Deluxe that we retrieved/saved at a
junkyard in 1993 or so. Bright orange, original paint. The bus was at
the junkyard because 4 guys (so we were told) followed the Dead all one
summer, and it in fact has a Dead tour sticker on one window. I was
sick with bronchitis and instead of being in bed I went to the junkyard
with my dad (makes perfect sense). We saw this perfect bus sitting up
in front of the yard and went to inquire; we were told we'd better buy
it right then or it would be dismantled. Apparently the 4 guys finished
the tour in the Bay Area, were in the East Bay when the engine died,
managed to make it to a garage in Hayward but decided they didn't want
to pay for repairs as they were done touring, and left it parked on the
street. We've put a brand new engine in it with brand new carbs and
have camped ever since!
Donna, Transporter collector
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From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of dusty edwards
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 10:06 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Vanagon In Autoweek Magazine - August 1, 2005
hey - there was even a mention of Phish in that
article.....niiiiiiiiiiiiiccccee.
"While the VW van is perfect for following the Grateful Dead or later,
Phish, it is the original perfect vehicle for road tripping."
On Aug 4, 2005, at 7:41 AM, Aaron Pearson wrote:
> 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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