On Tue, 30 Jul 1996 21:20:11 -0500 john wakefield said: >'82 VW LT45TD, 4wd camper, 6 cyl Vovlo turbo diesel, >low miles, many spares, $30,000 >Anybody know about this? Looks like Vanagons big >brother, with a raised fiberglass roof, lenthened rear >end, but what might be standard vanagon nose (hard to >say comparing teeny picture to the '81) certainly seems >to have Vanagon grill, lights, and VW emblem. $30k nah. the LT series is a larger, front-engine, rear-wheel drive van built by VW and M.A.N. of Austra, a large truck company (rivals of Mercedes and Saab-Scania and Volvo trucks). it LOOKS sorta like a vanagon, but not when you see them together. the 45 series is a BIG truck. i'd say on the order of the size of a medium step-side or the UPS truck that delivers around town. :) i find that "4wd" a little hard to believe, however. but then, i guess if want to pay for it... on a 45, the rear axle has dual-wheels on each side. >conspicuously customized. Has anyone seen this done to a Vanagon based >vehicle? The US manufactured vans tricked out this way aren't that there was a Dutch company named Klemper or something like that, who used to do that with the breadloaf buses. they may have continued the practice with the vanagons. what they appeared to do was take a single cab pickup and cut the bed off, extend it, and weld a box onto the bed. for a REALLY big bread truck. one of the british bus books has a picture of one. looks like a really comfortable camper, but loooooooooooong. :) joel
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