Date:         Mon, 31 Jul 1995 10:23:21 -0800 (PST)
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         GDURSTEW@oimb.uoregon.edu
Subject:      96 bus trip to the arctic ocean.


> i used to live up in the yukon territory, and the availability of parts in
> whitehorse is not good. there aren't any. everything is ordered in from
> edmonton or vancouver at astonishing prices (i had a landcruiser instead of a
> bus up there, and there was a reason for it...). as far as our
> proposed trip goes, the last places that have vw parts are prince
> george, b.c., and edmonton, alberta. and of course anchorage, but
> that would be out of our way...needless to say, there's no veedub dealers on
> the 2000 miles between edmonton and anchorage. there's one guy in whitehorse
> who will work on vw's if pushed hard enough (with those colorful canadian
> bills !). he's the local "foreign cars specialist", calls himself a
> mechanic... the town has 2-3 fairly well stocked FLAPS for general things,
> and being a frontier city in mining country, there's no shortage of welders
> and other people who will say they can fix anything. a fair number of 'em
> probably can... there's about half a dozen pretty trashed buses around town,
> and once in a while you can find one as engine donor if you need one. the
> junkyards have, like, 2 buses and half a dozen rabbits. as far as busses go,
> the yukon is a developing country...
>                     ciao,
>                             Gregor \ 73 westy "FESTUS"
> Subject:    Re: 1996 vanagon@lenti Tour
> Proposal!
>
> >
> > Go for it. Were the temperatures about what you planned for? What would
> > you say the availability of mid-70s Volkswagen parts was for most of the
> > trip..?   : ' )
> > Michael
> > '76 Campmobile
> >
> > On Sun, 30 Jul 1995, Harry Yates wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Folks.  My wife & I did a similar trip in 1989 as to what Tobin is
> > > proposing.  We did this trip in 5 weeks, and covered 10,500 km of
> > > which over 8,000 km were dirt/gravel/shale.
> > >
> > > I would be more than happy to share my experiences with anyone
> > > thinking of this trip.
> > >
> > > Harry.
> > >
> > > > WHAT:   Vanagon@lenti Top of the World Tour 1996
> >
>