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Cape Coral Fla
North of Cape Coral pkwy
Orange Westy
No time to take a pic
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| Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2024 8:03 pm Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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Parked next to this really nice Westy at the Whiteoak Canyon Trailhead in Shenendoah NP last Saturday. I should have taken the picture from the otherside, oh well.
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vanis13
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| Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2024 6:44 am Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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Trinidad Cuba, today!
What is it!?
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| Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2024 7:09 am Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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Chinese ?
If you google chinese copy cat car models it gets weird.
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shadetreemech
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| Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2024 10:27 am Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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Saw this one out the train window passing through Poggibonsi, Italy on a recent trip:
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campism
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| Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2024 7:16 am Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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Trinidad Cuba, today!
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Looks like a Vanagon body with some pretty obvious mods; extended body at rear, redone front end, no vent windows. Not the only Cuban vehicle to have been vastly modified for service but this one at least looks well done compared to some others.
https://www.alamy.com/lada-taxi-in-sancti-spiritus...archtype=0
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| Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2024 7:49 am Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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Judging from the air scoop, it appears that the engine is in the front like those strange trucks from Mexico. Thing on top also appears to be an air conditioner!
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MsTaboo
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| Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2024 12:49 pm Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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Sincerely doubt it's a Vanagon. Just a Chinese van with some fancy wheels, doodads, and VW badges for fun.
It has the engine up front under the passenger seat and the fuel tank in back.
Body creases are different, roof line is different, rear hatch is full length, slider door recess, etc.
That exterior A/C is kinda interesting, sort of like an RV, takes up less room inside.
There are some very clever Cuban panel beaters because of the various embargoes over the years but this has all the hallmarks of an Asian import.
I doubt it's Japanese, Indian, or Indonesian because it appears to be LHD, so most likely made in China.
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| Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2024 7:00 pm Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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Cape May NJ 2-9-24
Richmond VA 2-7-24
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bobbyblack
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| Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2024 3:55 pm Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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This late model full Westy taunts me as I travel through the Prairie of the Dogs. Looks to be running, moves from time to time as I spy by.
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| Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2024 10:52 am Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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Cape Coral Fla 3-10-24
90 westy
B.I.G (British, Italian, German) car show
Automatic and for sale
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| Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2024 2:08 pm Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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Richmond Va 3-16-24
Daughter spotted it
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campism
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| Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2024 3:55 pm Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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Richmond Va 3-16-24
Daughter spotted it
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I spotted that van in the North Side a couple of years ago.
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| Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:40 pm Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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Richmond Va 3-16-24
Daughter spotted it
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I spotted that van in the North Side a couple of years ago. |
Spotted in Church Hill
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| Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2024 1:51 pm Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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Daughter Spots another
Museum District Richmond Va 3-17-24
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campism
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| Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2024 5:32 am Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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Your daughter has a good eye. Glad she's contributing.
I had a buddy with an unhealthy attachment to finned Cadillacs so I, working as a traveling sales rep at the time, loaded him up with film photos I took for years in VA, NC, DC, and MD of the cars I saw. He assembled them into an album and happened to take it to a car meet. One guy was leafing through and exclaimed in shock, "That's MY car in front of MY house in Garner NC."
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An hour ago, Key West FL, east side of the island watching the sunrise over Cow Channel towards Stock Island where I'm anchored. Sounded like an air cooled pulling away. Kayak on top, bikes in back.
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Shonandb
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| Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2024 8:10 am Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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In Whistler BC for a conference and came across this high top Syncro - nice!
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| Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 11:30 am Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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In Loreto, Baja. I luked a while but the owners did not show up.
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4Gears4Tires
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Saw this beautiful Wolfsburg edition at the Sierra Nevada Brewery in Asheville, NC last Saturday night. It's the exact type that my mom had when I was a kid. Same exterior and interior color, two rear facing jump seats, and pop up table.
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