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Date:         Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:12:58 -0400
Reply-To:     Kenneth Wilford <kenwilfy@COMCAST.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Kenneth Wilford <kenwilfy@COMCAST.NET>
Subject:      Re: Sightings in real life and not
Comments: To: Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <703587.37668.qm@web51404.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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I had a visit from a customer driving a 89 Westy Joker Turbo Diesel last week. It was the first time I have seen a Joker in real life and it was pretty cool. For those of you who may not know what one of these is they are a permanently raised hightop like an Adventurewagen except made by Westfalia and only sold in Europe. The interior in his looked very similar to the interior of a normal poptop Westy with a few exceptions. There was a factory cabinet near the sliding door that looks like a seat and can be used as a seat. It is supposed to contain a chemical toilet. The van also had a factory installed furnace and grew water tank. On the Westy instrument panel where you normally flip that tiny switch to see your water level, battery condition, and fridge light status there was another small switch below the normal one. He told me this was for a heater that heated the propane if the temperatures got really low (so many degrees below zero). Also the propane tank was bigger than what we would see here in the states. All of the windows in the camper area were double pane plastic (similar to what a factory Westy skylight looks like). It is supposed to give you a higher insulation factor for camping but just like the factory skylights these windows go bad with age. I would much rather have the glass ones myself.

He lives in the Philly area now and the van is powder blue so some of you folks may see it around.

Ken Wilford John 3:16 www.vanagain.com

Stephen Grisanti wrote: > While watching “Criminal Minds” on TV last night > (forgive me) they chased down a suspect and there were > three extremely brief glimpses, all from the left rear > quarter, of a grey Vanagon hardtop parked nearby. The > Vanagon was not harmed in the encounter. > > And Richmond’s elusive Silver Syncro Adventurewagen > was stopped at a light this morning as I drove our > real car to work. The young driver probably would not > have understood excitement from a Honda driver, so I > tried not to get too excited. > > Stephen > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > >


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