Date:         Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:30:05 -0700
Reply-To:     Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: that is one very beautiful vanangon ... sigh ...
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  Totally purpose built campers like that,  I guess they have their place.
I have a skookum older Alaskan camper, slide in with a telescoping
roof...it's fine if you are camping.  But when you are traveling with stuff
and dogs aboard...not so good.  This one looks like that...lots of cool
little ideas for when you are camping...but if you look at it close and
think about real life traveling...
As long as your "stuff" fits into all those neat little cabinets, you are
ok..but if you want to bring anything else...where will it go....And that
rack....I have one similar on my work truck....it is really heavy with that
diamond grid...That vehicle must be a nightmare on anything other than a
very smooth and flat freeway..

  I've built vans similar...very fancy, very complete, very heavy very slow
and 'locked-in' to the way they are...Then I use the thing and wish.."
Geeze, that shower coulda been bigger and the dinette smaller" or "why did I
put that pump under there?"  Or, "I wish I could take that road, but this
thing will fall apart" or "Will I fit under the bank drive up?"...

  If I were going to really own a Mini-motor home, it probably wouldn't be
"like a small Toyota"...It probabaly would be a small Toyota...see them
around all the time in my travels...same ones, year after year...doing fine,
not sitting in someones back lot, busted...

  Don Hanson

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Jarrett Anthony Kupcinski <
kupcinski@gmail.com> wrote:

> I saw one like that when I was in Paris a couple years back. The wife had
> to endure 10 minutes of me taking pictures and general oggling not even 500
> meters from the Eiffel Tower. It was VERY cool, but definitely not a
> vanagon. It reminded me of a Rialta.
>
> -Jarrett
> 89 Westy, Oly
>
> On Sep 15, 2010, at 11:48 AM, Roger VanTill wrote:
>
> > It's in the Samba classifieds. I've been drooling for a while now.
> Supersize
> > me!
> >
> > http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=1019707
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Michael Sullivan
> > <sandwichhead@gmail.com>wrote:
> >
> >> I think it IS VC.  No price, tho.
> >> Michael in San Antonio
> >> 91GL Weekender AT 2.1L 'Gringo'
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Jake de Villiers <
> >> crescentbeachguitar@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Is it Fryedaye already?   My calendar must be broken...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Roger Whittaker <
> rogerwhitt1@gmail.com
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> 1993 VW LT28 Westfalia 360-241-6812
> >>>> 90K miles
> >>>> This is a very rare European RV, only a few in the US! One foot wider
> >> and
> >>>> longer then a regular Vanagon Westie. Larger then a Eurovan.
> >>>
> >>
>