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PostPosted: Fri Jul 15, 2016 4:05 pm    Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE, lately? Reply with quote

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On my way back to the office, corner of hwy 9 and Short, westward bound at this point. 2 guys as far as I could tell from this distance.

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Waverly, Iowa? Do we now know your undisclosed location?
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 17, 2016 8:50 pm    Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE, lately? Reply with quote

A silver Westy parked next to my silver Westy at Elkins Resort on Priest Lake, ID.
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Here's the ~30 mile dirt road over Pass Creek pass leading to Priest Lake (it's also accessible from the south via a paved road).
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 18, 2016 4:08 am    Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE, lately? Reply with quote

On the Berkshire spur of the Mass pike..
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 18, 2016 7:14 am    Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE, lately? Reply with quote

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Waverly, Iowa? Do we now know your undisclosed location?


Still undisclosed, Waverly is close tho Wink That sign for a gun show is to get ppl to go to Waverly to buy a gun... go figure, ppl got to be told where to buy a gun!?!?

More info can be gleaned from my Fri Jul 01, 2016 post of a Syncro in this thread Wink
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 18, 2016 10:13 am    Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE, lately? Reply with quote

I saw like 8 of them this weekend around town, I was driving each time so I didn't grab a photo... but seriously... the world is starting to taunt me.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 8:05 am    Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE, lately? Reply with quote

I love this thread, but I'll be damned that I drive my rig daily and still haven't appeared somewhere in here.

Guess I'm gonna have to dare someone to find me out there on the road. The prize would be a beer.

Just did a drive out to the Poconos for camping this past weekend, not one other Westy in site the whole trip.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 8:47 am    Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE, lately? Reply with quote

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I love this thread, but I'll be damned that I drive my rig daily and still haven't appeared somewhere in here.

Hey, we've driven our Westy right through your area a couple of times and you never saw us!
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 9:08 am    Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE, lately? Reply with quote

Perhaps the PO got clever and installed a cloaking device

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It just needs to be switched off
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 10:39 am    Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE, lately? Reply with quote

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Destructo wrote:
I love this thread, but I'll be damned that I drive my rig daily and still haven't appeared somewhere in here.

Hey, we've driven our Westy right through your area a couple of times and you never saw us!


Haha...Challenge excepted!
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 30, 2016 10:14 am    Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE, lately? Reply with quote

Spotted yesterday when returning from the park. I spied this one parked beside a repair shop and went around the block to get a pic. By that time he was on the move and by the time I got to the front of the lot he'd exited and was making a U turn. There are small antlers attached to the front of the luggage rack. Second one of those I've seen in town. Must be a thing.

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PostPosted: Sat Jul 30, 2016 12:48 pm    Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE, lately? Reply with quote

While waiting for the ferry from Anacortes to Friday Harbor (SJI), there were two other Westy's in the queue. Had a good chin-wag with Rick and Eric.

You can just spot them in this (sorry, rather poor) photo:

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PostPosted: Sat Jul 30, 2016 5:58 pm    Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE, lately? Reply with quote

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While waiting for the ferry from Anacortes to Friday Harbor (SJI), there were two other Westy's in the queue. Had a good chin-wag with Rick and Eric.

You can just spot them in this (sorry, rather poor) photo:

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Great day to be on the islands! I almost tried to cross over today, but settled for puttering around Washington Park with the kids then eating at the Brown Lantern! Enjoy!
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 01, 2016 4:03 pm    Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE, lately? Reply with quote

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Saw this a few weeks back driving SB I-5 in Seattle. Had fender flares, Fuchs rims and what seems to be a Porsche power plant underneath. [/img]
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 01, 2016 7:01 pm    Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE, lately? Reply with quote

That might be the same 911 powered van they had when I worked up on Cap Hill, back in the mid-'80's.


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PostPosted: Mon Aug 01, 2016 8:49 pm    Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE, lately? Reply with quote

Past Saturday driving west through Quebec and Ontario we stopped counting at 50 Westies coming the other way. Nice to see so many on the road.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 02, 2016 12:21 am    Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE, lately? Reply with quote

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Past Saturday driving west through Quebec and Ontario we stopped counting at 50 Westies coming the other way. Nice to see so many on the road.

Yup. Ben has been busy. (He's fixed a LOT of them in Quebec)
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 02, 2016 6:55 am    Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE, lately? Reply with quote

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That might be the same 911 powered van they had when I worked up on Cap Hill, back in the mid-'80's.


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Akers and Ferrari are still on Cap Hill, but M-B, BMW, Complete Automotive and others have moved. Moto shops Pokes (closed) and Deweys (moved) were gone by the mid 90s. The neighborhood has changed a ton since I moved there in 1990.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 02, 2016 7:40 am    Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE, lately? Reply with quote

Pokes was like a combination candy store and old timey hardware store. I spent many many hours and pay checks in there after I bought my R75/5. Cap Hill was full of all manner of amazing wierdos back then. I stealth camped in my split there and in the University district for a good part of a year before moving to West Seattle, which was also full of amazing wierdos
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 05, 2016 3:05 pm    Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE, lately? Reply with quote

Four Westies, a new high, five with a tintop.

A white one in NE Seattle, a dark burgundy one near Carkeek Pk in NW Seattle, a Titian Red (like mine) just off Holman Rd, also NW Seattle, and an early 80s blue one, just of 15th ave near 80th, also NW Seattle. Those were all Westies…there was a tintop on 92nd in Maple Leaf that I see everytime I go through there.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 15, 2016 9:31 pm    Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE, lately? Reply with quote

A white Westy in Hood River, OR

A Syncro Westy (deep red/burgundy w/ white roof, SA lights, bull bar) on the way up to Mt Adams (I couldn't do the Westy Wave as I wasn't in mine).

a Savannah Beige westy alongside I-5 in S Washington.
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