Date:         Wed, 12 Oct 94 16:09:24 CDT
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         "J. Walker" <JWALKER@ua1vm.ua.edu>
Subject:      Re: (long) VW-Winnebago Rialta 20' magazine test

On Wed, 12 Oct 94 16:03:01 CDT <RGOLEN@umassd.edu> said:
>1. Joel, do you scan these articles in, or do you "hunt & peck"?
>(hint....becareful...what you say might be sent to the govenor
>of Allybammah   ;-)

the fleet fingers of my fat little hands race across the keyboard to bring
you all the news that fits. :)

'Lil Jimmy? oh,he don't care what we do up here in Tooka-looka. as long as
the germans build that plant up here, and he gets to ride around in his
Mercedes-Benz 600SEL, he's happy as a pig in a mud-wallow. (and that's
pretty happy, folks).

>2. As Winnebago aparently uses the front end of the EV...does that
>mean the chop off the ass-ends and can them, or do they buy
>EV "noses"?

what i had read in other magazines, was that VW was shipping over the EV
long wheelbase with only the cab attached. but that meant that there WAS
already a chassis/frame all the way back to the rear wheels. so what do
these Motorhome folks mean about Winnebago 'building their own frame'? i
can't believe they would chop off what is already there ... i think they
are building a 'frame' for the camper part and fixing it to the chassis
that VW provides. i don't think they would chop anything off and throw it
away ... much less go through the labor to remove all the brake lines and
a-arms and wheels and such.

joel