Date:         Thu, 29 Apr 1999 21:45:39 -0700
Reply-To:     "Tom L. Neal" <jneal@NETCOM.COM>
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From:         "Tom L. Neal" <jneal@NETCOM.COM>
Subject:      Re: Vanagons in the news
Comments: To: Bob Stratton <bob@SDII.COM>
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Saw quite a few camouflage colored vanagons while driving around in Germany.
Several near Leipzig at a roadside vanagon used car lot/junkyard at
a three building crossroads.  Had my wife stop and go back to inspect the 
collection. Quite a site...if only the camera had been working...
Pretty cheap, too.  3000DM, about $1700US.

Someone told me once that the main reason the syncro was built was an
order for 50,000 from the German army.  Not sure this is true but the
concept sounds plausible.  
Never did see a camouflaged syncro in Germany...it works!

Cheers, Tom Neal


On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Bob Stratton wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I was watching the news with my fiancée tonight, and a story came on about
> the German Army training for maneuvers in Yugoslavia. 
> 
> I wasn't really paying attention until I saw this Vanagon with round
> headlights jerk into reverse, stop, and the driver fling himself out of the
> cab as soldiers surrounded the thing. 
> 
> I didn't get a good look at the sides, but I could swear it was painted in
> camouflage colors. Too cool. Pity it couldn't have been under more serene
> circumstances. 
> 
> 
> --Bob, KE4GDC
> 89 Westy Syncro GL
>