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Date:         Wed, 12 Oct 2016 16:38:01 -0400
Reply-To:     Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Splitty question
Comments: To: Eric Caron <ecaron1@COMCAST.NET>
In-Reply-To:  <847B3236-6BBF-4BFE-9CA8-B1C564CC37E3@comcast.net>
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Rust. I briefly owned a '63 Westy and discovered how little I knew about purchase inspections when months later I tried to jack it up and watched the jack point go right up through the paint-over-Bondo rocker panels. I'd been driving a parts bus and did not know it.

Stephen

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> On Oct 12, 2016, at 3:20 PM, Eric Caron <ecaron1@COMCAST.NET> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > Not a vanagon question but hoping I’m still in bounds for a non Friday. > > In a recent conversation I was told about a 1956 split bus sitting in a local garage. I remember hearing about it’s arrival about 5 years ago. It was gifted to a young woman by a friend in Arizona. She drove it to VT. It has only started a few times in the last few years. I don’t know much else about it yet. the family is interested in finding it a home and I volunteered to look at it. > > So, this could also be a simple technology learning bus for me but it could also be a bit more connected to my vanagon then the beetle around the corner. > > Where might I get a crash course about 56 busses and what to look for in terms of body and drive train weak points or desirable characteristics? > > Here’s to hoping I have found another worth while retirement project. > > I know some of you folks still have a splitty . and many others remember them well. > > I was recently given some older VW parts and I kept a few that actually seemed like they would be useful on my vanagon. Are there some clear connections between the splitty and the vanagon? > > I have a bracket I was told was to hold the battery and I suspect it might actually work in my vanagon as mine is missing. I love finding the connections between the T1, T2, and T3. > > > Eric Caron > 85 GL Auto Westfalia


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