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Date:         Wed, 18 Aug 1999 23:15:24 -0700
Reply-To:     Austin <austins@IX.NETCOM.COM>
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From:         Austin <austins@IX.NETCOM.COM>
Subject:      was: Check out this Westy
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At 08:24 AM 8/17/99 -0400, you wrote:

>Now before everyone goes stomping on this GTRV thing, has anyone driven one >or owned one? I think it looks pretty clever. Everytime I see a big Ford >Econoline van, I think about the unique possibilities in what this company >has achieved. > >Granted, I LOVE our VW Westy, and this Econoline thing could never replace >it. But GTRV seems to have cured many of the ills of the VW without being >substantially horrible. I would like to see how well engineered/quality of >fit and finish before I drew hasty conclusions. The base van, the ford >Econoline is rugged and solidly built. It looks like the designers of the >camping gear did a good job of designing as a small yacht, ala Westfalia, >rather than as a small house, ala Win-or-beg-o. Except that tacky apartment >style kitchen faucet and the stupid microwave...what's up with that? > >If it is built as durably as our Westy, and costs in the "high $30's" as >advertised, I wouldn't be so quick to blow it off. > >Please issue receipts for $.02. > >G. Matthew Bulley > And Ed Anderson is doing his 1st class Adventurwagen conversions to Fords these days - there's one in the neighborhood & he's maintained his yacht quality work.

Austin


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