Date:         Fri, 23 Apr 1999 05:19:12 EDT
Reply-To:     JordanVw@AOL.COM
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From:         JordanVw@AOL.COM
Subject:      Re: westfalia???
Comments: To: julio@intergate.bc.ca
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In a message dated 99-04-23 03:20:59 EDT, julio@INTERGATE.BC.CA writes:

<< I was just curious does any one know why volkswagon changed from westfalia
to winnabago?  Does westfalia still excist?  Was their any changes is the
westfalia package in all the years of vanagon?  And does anyone know if the
company westfalia has a web site?  Did they ever do any other things other
than vw conversions?  Where the conversions done at a vw factory or at a
westfalia factory? Is their more than one location of westfalia factory?
  >>

VW stopped selling westy's over here because the EV Westy got too expensive
and  nobody bought it.  VWOA imported barebones EV panelvans to the Winnebago
factory in (Indiana?) or wherever they are in the midwest, and could sell a
better outfitted EV Winnebago for less money than a EV Westy.
Westfalia is a German based company, independant from VW, other than the fact
that they do a camper conversion to a VW van. Westfalia-Werke makes
everything from trailer hitches, to flatbed trailers, to pull behind
campertrailers, to camper conversions to other cars, or vans (ive seen a Ford
Westfalia van in England) to camping tents and supplies, etc..etc.
think of Westfalia-Werke GMBH as a combination between U-Haul and Winnebago
Industries. All VW vans were made at VW's factory at Hannover, then shipped
to Westfalia Weidenbruck for the camper conversion.

chris