Hi Piero I come on holiday near you once a year (for last 6 years) in my 1985 Transporter, to my wife's family home near Bardi in the Italian Mountains. We often go through La Spezia and on to Forte Dei Marmi to the beach. This year I took some photos of the local ambulance in Bardi (Italy) VW Transporter of course, frosted windows, stretcher, lights the lot. Unfortunately it had been in a front and rear end smash and they replaced it with a Talbot/Fiat van. Also on the road from Viareggio we stopped at some lights and saw this gorgeous white Bay window A/c transporter it looked straight out of the showroom - I was so smitten I missed the lights turning green! Keep in touch we could meet up next year and have our own VW meeting. David Clark (UK) 1985 VW Autosleeper VHT 1.9 2WD www.soft.net.uk/vwt2oc (see members rides) 1960 Humber Super Snipe Estate 3L www.humberonia.freeserve.co.uk 1985 Fiat Uno 1.1L automatic (wife's) ----- Original Message ----- From: Piero Padroni <vanagon@HOTPOP.COM> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: 22 November 1999 23:29 Subject: Italian Vanagon
> Hi boys, > thank you all for your welcome! > I use this mail to reply to all. > I live in Genoa (Genova, the city where Colombo was born), in the north of > Italy. Genoa is placed in the region of Liguria, a good wine district! > I saw a Vanagon with a Canadian license plate on last August in Carcassonne > but in that moment I was in the car of a friend. So after parking a came > back to see the vanagon and to take a photo, but it wasn't yet there. I'm > collecting Vanagons photos and related internet links because I'm very > enthusiast of that car. > I bought mine from a private here in Genoa five years ago. It's a 2WD, > green, 9 seats, 1600 diesel, the simplest people carrier version (kombi) > but I worked a lot to improve it: I added anti-noise material in the > lateral panels, an auxiliary heater under the rear bench, panels on the > roof, new radio system and a lot of other works...now I know my Vanagon > better than my pockets! > Now I'm thinking about to buy a new one......a new "used" one, but I'm not > yet sure if it will be a Syncro or a Multivan. I'm a little astonished > because the Vanagon is more famous in America than in Italy, so it isn't > simple to find a good one here. > Regarding Italian sites, I actually don't have anyone of them in my 35 > Vanagon bookmarks!! > I was thinking about to do a new one, but why? There is VANAGON.COM that is > the best! > bye, > Piero. > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > Piero Padroni > Genova ITALY > '84 Vanagon 1.6D (green) > e-mail: padroni@lycosmail.com > vanagon@hotpop.com > ------------------------------------------------------- > |
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