Hi gang, Recently spent a week in Victoria BC visiting friends. When I lived there I had never owned a vanagon (I had a 78 Westy) and so didn't pay that much attention to them. I was pleasantly shocked to see how many there were --- in the first afternoon of driving and walking around Victoria I saw more than 20 vanagons ---- mostly Westies. My buddy was killing himself laughing as I kept saying "Look -- there's another one!!" I noticed that the majority were air-cooled, which I found a bit surprising. Maybe the need for a working heater is less desparate in the temperate Victoria climate. I also made a pilgrimage to Malahat Auto Parts which has a 50 or 60 wrecked vanagons still in captivity --- some pics at these links. *http://tinyurl.com/dry57* *http://tinyurl.com/ax6od* *http://tinyurl.com/dlzkd* One thing we found odd is that all the Westy interiors and tops were gone --- the guy behind the counter explained that a local Westy rental company had come and bought and removed every Westy part they had on the yard. Too bad, as I was looking for some Westy bits and have ordered obscure used bits from these guys in the past. Cheers, Doug |
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