OK, I'm heading down the Geelong Road after leaving work the Friday before Christmas - I'm musing (read wishing) about getting a new board and have just about decided it gonna be a sort of thruster/mini malibu cross about 6'10" (what do you think? seems I could get the best of both worlds) which is much more suited to my age, knees and back than my current 5'11" when I pass this VW camper van..... It was the strangest beast I'd ever seen..... It was LHD and had European or English plates (no country or State on them though). From the back it looked most like my 76 bus (similar tail-lights etc). From the front it looked a caravelle (or transporter or whatever). In fact it looked like the 'newer' (post 80) front end grafted onto on 'older' (73-79) back end. It had a chrome badge saying 'T21' (italic script) on the grille below the windscreen. It had a HUGE box top at LEAST half as high as a normal bus again. The box top had a 'Westphalia' sticker/logo on the rear right hand side. On top of this it had a HUGE floored luggage rack (or was it a sun deck 8-) ???). It was watercooled (had what looked like a radiator grille anyway) and it didn't sound or smoke like a diesel....... What was this vehicle? Rob K. _________________________ Robert King king@tanelorn.aod.dsto.gov.au 72 Mutant Bug 76 Bus 62 Microbus (long term relaxation project) and a Mark Richards twin fin in the closet
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