Date:         Wed, 8 Oct 2008 23:43:56 -0600
Reply-To:     Andrew Grebneff <goose1047@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Andrew Grebneff <goose1047@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      VW T1 toys (handmade) on Vancouver Island
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When we were on Vancouver Island last month we stopped at a place
called "Goats on Roof",
a shop in a tourist-trap marketplace, if I remember rightly, in
Coombs, which is just south of Qualicum
Beach and south of Highway 19.

The main shop, the one closest to the road, has a sod-covered roof
with goats on it. Real ones. Live ones.

This shop has food and all sorts of touristy stuff (no doubt all made
in China) such as plastic-resin trolls
(all with too-thin feet which break)... and hand-made toy cars... very
nice ones, about 30cm long. Some
are of awful 1950s finned US monstrosities, but 2 are Split-windshield
VW vans (T1s). There's a hippie
Kombi and a Samba. Price is $20.00. I got a Kombi, but when I go back
I will snag a Samba.

Please leave one for me!!

Heck, I might repaint the Kombi to make it respectable. Buy several,
repaint and lower them and fit model
alloy wheels...

--
Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin, New Zealand
Fossil preparator
Mollusc, Toyota & VW van nut
Temporarily in Calgary, AB, Canada
<goose1047@gmail.com>