Date:         Fri, 4 Mar 2011 10:08:32 -0800
Reply-To:     Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Friday - 1940's vintage Dodge Powerwagen
Comments: To: Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
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My father owned one of these WW II era powerwagen Army ambulance in Alaska. It was our only transportation for a few years.I think it was a 1945. 
 
The heater did'nt work, and the passenger door did'nt latch. 
One night , a friend of my dad's asked for a ride home, he was too drunk remember the warning I gave about not leaning on the door. 
He did lean anyway in a curve, fell out , and I jumped out of the truck while it was still in low gear and running , to see what happened to the guy.
 
He was laying in the road, and looked dead. I shook him, he opened his eyes, got up and got back in the truck, which had rolled into a front porch and knocked it sideways. 
 
Mind you I was only going about 15 on ice packed roads, and the man was bundled up in layers of clothing which over that he wore a thick down parka.
 
I was 15.
 
I loved driving that truck, push-putton start, whining trasmission , pneumatic windshield wipers, and the high roof. 
 
Robert
1982 Westfalia
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


--- On Fri, 3/4/11, Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA> wrote:


From: Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
Subject: Friday - 1940's vintage Dodge Powerwagen
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Date: Friday, March 4, 2011, 8:57 AM


A couple of scans from old slides, one of the Powerwagon, and one of
Johanson Lake, Northern B.C.

http://shufti.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/johanson-lake/

That truck was great.


alistair