Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:30:58 -0400
Reply-To: mcneely4@COX.NET
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From: Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject: Re: Your GoWesty Engine...how do you like it?
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You know, that applies for ANY VW camper purchase and ongoing
maintenance and repair costs. It ain't cheap. Dave Mc
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 3:50 PM, W Monk wrote:
> I would have to guess is after spending all that big money on a Go
> Westy
> rebuild they
> camp rain or shine so they can get their money's worth out of it....
>
> B
>
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Robert Fisher wrote:
>
>> Guess I'm confused... I thought the question was whether people with
>> the
>> GoWesty engine liked camping in the rain?
>>
>> Cya,
>> Robert
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On
>> Behalf Of
>> John Meeks
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 9:16 AM
>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>> Subject: Re: Your GoWesty Engine...how do you like it?
>>
>> So, how DO you damp campers like your GoWesty engine ;-)
>> John Meeks
>> '91 Multivan
>> Northern Michigan
>>
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>>
>> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Dave Mcneely wrote:
>>
>>> I have never noticed that my camper smells like smoke after
>>> campfires,
>>> even when the weather is wet. Partly that may be due to
>>> accommodation,
>>> but I would think that if I have the fire, drive home, park the van
>>> for
>>> a couple of days, it is rainy, and I open the door, if the smell was
>>> there, I'd get it. Maybe I am just insensitive to that smell, but
>>> my
>>> clothes do retain it, and when I wash them several days after the
>>> fire,
>>> I can smell it on them as I put them in the washer.
>>>
>>> Dave Mc
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
>>>
>>> Arranging 8 kids and 2 dogs and a fire under/in a Shady Boy and a
>>> van
>>>> musta took some doing. Did the van smell like smoke the rest of the
>>>> year?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
>>>> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
>>>> 74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano,
>>>> Calif.)
>>>> Bend, OR
>>>> KG6RCR
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 10/12/2009 5:30 PM Peter T. Owsianowski wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Once in the Mannistee Nat'l Forest - 2nd day of two-tracking, it
>>>>> began to
>>>>> rain shorty after breakfast. 4 adults, 4 kids, 2 dogs. We sat
>>>>> under
>>>>> the
>>>>> Shadyboy in a soft rain (most of the day. Had a nice little fire
>>>>> that kept
>>>>> going in the rain, smoke going the other way. Had a nice Monopoly
>>>>> game,
>>>>> beers, lunch. Kids played cards in the bus, parents sat out under
>>>>> the
>>>>> awning. Have not been able to repeat that as our kids moved into
>>>>> the
>>>>> teenage years, the rain made it really difficult to keep them
>>>>> interested.
>>>>>
>>>>> Pete
>>>>> '79 Westy "Aardvark"
>>>>> '87 Westy "Joe's Van"
>>>>> WWW.Busesbythebeach.com
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Jake de Villiers
>>>>>
>>>>
>>
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