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Date:   Thu, 01 Feb 96 07:16:00 EST
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From:   "Kramer, James" <kramja@edc1.edc.ca>
Subject:   1979 Westfalia questions

I've been lurking for almost a year now and am still in search of that elusive Westy. I've come across someone who has a '79 for sale, although some of its features struck me as odd (all descriptions are based on a phone call-I haven't seen it yet). Mind you, I've only admired Westies from afar so my knowledge is admittedly not so deep. Maybe someone has some comments:

1) It's an automatic (?!) I've had lots of Ghias and know the semi-automatics weren't as bad as some made them out to be, but I've never even heard of a Westy automatic - at least not on the 2nd generation models. Is this common? Is it very desirable or undesirable? How much of a nightmare is it when something goes wrong?

2) It has no stove and just a cooler box (i.e. no fridge). I always assumed a Westy meant the whole camping interior, but seemingly there were some models more deluxe than others. Is it safe to assume that a deluxe interior could be easily transplanted if I could find one?

3) The guy seemed pretty forthright about descriptions, and mentioned that a pipe was missing from the sink(?), making it a pretty useless sink. Would I be wrong assuming this should be easy to replace?

4) The colour of this particular beast is orange, which is odd since I always thought 79s only came in that dark manure brown colour. Then again, this is a Canadian bus so maybe we had different colour choices up here?

Any and all insights appreciated, especially good rationales arguing for a purchase.


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