Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 13:11:21 -0500
Reply-To: Jonce Fancher <streetbugs@FRONTIER.COM>
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From: Jonce Fancher <streetbugs@FRONTIER.COM>
Subject: Re: [WetWesties] Early Fri. Element pop top little vangaon
content.
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Road trek http://www.roadtrek.com/
Class B motor homes based on the Chevy chassis or Sprinter Chassis.
The VW is considered a Class B Motorhome.
Just search Class B and it will show most all that is out there.
I do like sprinters since I have an 2003. Still amazed at 21.8 Miles
to the gallon City driving.
All in good fun.
But I still keep my westy alive with the 2.0L Bostig conversion, I
like it still over all of the others, But everyone has a sickness for
something or another.
C-ya Jonce
>I think that this does have vanagon content, since we are all driving our
>beautiful vans into the ground. One day the aging metal is just going to
>breakdown, no matter how much we've loved and cared for them. So, since
>Volkswagen doesn't seem to see the need to produce a new model, it's timely
>for us to consider alternatives. Personally, I've been looking at and liking
>the conversions done by GTRV http://www.gtrv.com/ which include an updated
>but still Westy-style interior. There's no way I'm ever climbing up into the
>top bunk again, as is required by the Ursa Minor.
>
>The greatest drawback (HUGE!) is that it still wouldn't be a Westy and you
>would lose this fabulous community. Don't have any ideas on how to deal with
>that.
>
>Cheers, Pat
>
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>From: wetwesties@yahoogroups.com [mailto:wetwesties@yahoogroups.com] On
>Behalf Of Don Hanson
>Sent: November-25-10 7:12 AM
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Cc: WetWesties
>Subject: [WetWesties] Early Fri. Element pop top little vangaon content.
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>The link to this Honda Element pop-top camper kit contains no Vanagon
>content. (Sorry for an Early Friday post, but we will be away for Friday, so
>) It is a subject that often comes up on Vanagon list, though....The wish
>that there was a more modern vehicle that's similar to the Vangaon Westies
>available somewhere. This Element kit looks like it is sort of along those
>lines...
>
>For what it is worth, we have a friend, older gal, who is a frequent and
>adventuresome traveler/camper. She had a Bay window Westie for years and
>finally grew weary of it's frequent and unpredictable breakdowns, even
>though she always used professional mechanics and replaced major components
>frequently without 'cheaping-out' at all on maintainence or repairs...
>
>She sold the Westie and got an Element..has been camping in/from that for a
>couple of years now. She really misses her VW...But she likes the
>dependability of the Honda and also likes it's AWD...... she teaches skiing
>and lives in Jackson Hole. She says her Element gets crummy gas mileage
>and is expensive to have repaired, but it's one of those 'modern vehicles'
>that doesn't require a second thought, you just gas it and drive it, no
>fuss.
>
>Looking at this kit in the link, it seems well thought out and executed.
>Might make that Honda Element a little more utilitarian for extended
>adventure camping.
>
>http://www.ursaminorvehicles.com/
>
>Don Hanson
>
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