Date:         Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:39:32 -0700
Reply-To:     Tom Buese <tombuese@COMCAST.NET>
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From:         Tom Buese <tombuese@COMCAST.NET>
Subject:      Re: Just like a Vanagon, but modern..
Comments: To: mcneely4@COX.NET
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Where is snail boi when we need him?

YMMV,

Mr. BZ-the expert on those puppies has left the house, unfortunately.


On Jan 18, 2011, at 6:17 PM, Dave Mcneely wrote:

> Don, are you talking about this?  Looks like Hiace is a Toyota van from this information.  mcneely
> 
> ---- Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>> I know it is not Friday but I saw a Nissan Hiace today, driving through town
>> and it went past my parked Vanagon.   They could be Clones.   Same size and
>> shape and this Nissan had a cool awning and it looked like a camping
>> interior.  Right hand drive and diesel.   Good looking modern beastie.
>> Didn't see the plates.  It looked to me like a modern Vanagon, but
>> Japanese.   I suppose the US forbids them being owned and registered here,
>> or we would all have them, I suppose.
>> 
>>  I am going to do some research about those thingys...I owned a Nissan one
>> time and it was so dependable I never even knew what kinda motor was in
>> it...Gas and drive...change the oil...and a couple of hundered thousand
>> miles later, it got smooshed without ever giving me one single problem.  If
>> I could have a Vanagon-like Nissan...I certainly would be all over it.
>> 
>>   The Nissan Hiace drivers were checking out my Vanagon as they drove
>> past.....wonder what they were saying to each other?
>> 
>>  Don Hanson
> 
> --
> David McNeely