Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:19:35 +0000
Reply-To: J Stewart <fonman4277@COMCAST.NET>
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From: J Stewart <fonman4277@COMCAST.NET>
Subject: Re: 1990 Westfalia For Sale
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Yup, and N. Virginia is one of those places, although I imagine there are more around than I know about, because in this area if you have one it is unlikely to be a daily driver. What I found amusing about the ad is that if the seller knows anything at all about Westfalias, they should know the swivel seat is not "rare". Agreed about not having the swivel on the drivers side, especially if you are over 6' tall.
Jeff Stewart
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wow.
I guess there are places not quite abundant with full Westy's.
there are hundreds of full-camper Westy's in the western states.
thousands even.
and they all have both front seats that swivel.
( though it's significant improvement to remove the driver's one usually. )
A westy is a pretty common thing actually ..
in Oregon and Washington.
Just ran into a guy the other day who picked up a very decent 84 for $ 1,800
in an auction.
Said he was in contact with local original owner - so a one-owner Westy.
Nothing that wrong with it really.
I could have easily gotten $ 5K for it for the owner, , if the orignal
owner knew about me.
Score and a half , for the new owner.
Depends on where you are , and condtion of the rig of course ..
but some people are letting them go way too inexpensively, from not being
tapped into this great vanagon familly online and not even knowing about
this whole world.
I wouldn't be suprised if there are 100 Westy's .........easily that, in the
Rogue Valley of southern Oregon ..
Medford/Ashland. More than that even, In just one medium size small city.
And pretty well preserved too ..
No rust. And in many parts of Oregon they use red volcanic sand rather than
salt on snowey roads.
Very dry climate too, ( well , not Portland ...but that's just wetness, not
salty corrosion ).
scott
www.turbovans.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "J Stewart" <fonman4277@COMCAST.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 7:44 AM
Subject: 1990 Westfalia For Sale
> Not mine, found on Craigslist (Washington, DC) . It even has the hard to
> find rotating front passenger seat! I thought I knew a fair amount about
> Westys, but didn't ALL full campers come with the "rotating seats"? I know
> my '85 Weekender didn't (but does now).
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> http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/rvs/2448520034.html
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> Jeff Stewart