Soo that was an icebox, not a fridge. No wonder I couldn't find the controls!

Jim

On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 8:24 AM, mark drillock <mdrillock@cox.net> wrote: > That is the Westy P22 layout, sold in 80/81. The full Westy P27 was sold > those years too so there was a choice. > > It has a 3 person bench seat that folds into a 2 person bed, since the > closet is behind the longer end of the bench. A smaller kitchen unit allows > room for the 3 person seating. > > In other markets that layout was more popular and continued for years. It > sometimes came with a stove installed into that smaller sinktop. The icebox > our P22 version came with also could be replaced with a 3 way Dometic. > > Mark > > > > Jim Felder wrote: >> >> Last week on the way back from an out of town meeting I passed through >> a small community where there is an old house with hundreds of VWs, >> dozens of buses and a handful of vanagons. I pulled in and talked with >> the guy working in the barn. He was a very nice guy who sold a few >> parts but is mainly in the business of pulling bus transmissions to >> put Into rail buggies. He had hundreds and hundreds of engines. >> >> His two vanagons were aircooled and pretty rough, though he wasn't >> planning to part out either (I was looking for a windshield). It was >> my first look at aircooled vanagon westies. Both had front cabinets >> with fridges and pantries, but under the lid there was no stove but >> only a sink. The water tank was under the bed. The clothes closet was >> the same as later westies, but the cabinet between the closet and the >> stove was much lower than the later ones and had no table above it. >> >> Was this a common layout back in aircooled days? >> >> Jim >> >