Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:56:25 -0700
Reply-To: Robert Fisher <refisher@MCHSI.COM>
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From: Robert Fisher <refisher@MCHSI.COM>
Subject: Re: Your GoWesty Engine...how do you like it?
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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
Vanagon Rescue Squad
http://www.vanagonauts.com/Vanagon_Rescue_Squad74.htm
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On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@cox.net> 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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