TheSamba.com :: View topic - The big Vanagon failures, wrecks and fires thread!

Sun Dec 09, 2018 9:49 am

Agreed..uncanny similarity (...even same engine conversion...???!!!??? :shock: )
...although a number of small differences picked up from DZ's gallery:
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_search.php?search_author=DAIZEE

- different wheels (easily changed, but why go back to 14" steelies...???)
- no sign of an awning rail on the fiberglass top (see DZ's picture):

- different front seats, bench fabric, curtains & cabinet hardware (all could have been changed)
- missing speakers in rear overhead cabinet:

It's this last one especially that makes me think this is prob'ly not the same van...???
Still, a blast from the past & fun for some Sunday morning sleuthing... 8)

- Dave

Sun Dec 09, 2018 11:57 am

Close but no cigar! That van doesn't have an engine swap - and Daizee's van wasn't an automatic.

A chilling crash nonetheless.

Sun Dec 09, 2018 12:05 pm

Yeah, and that Biohazard sticker doesn't make it any better!

Sun Dec 09, 2018 12:39 pm

dobryan wrote: Wow! What did that hit? ^^^

Texting/distracted/sleepy/drunk driver veering into concrete viaduct/parked semi/redwood tree tunnel/etc.?

So many permanent hazards are protected by different types of barricades but plenty aren't.

Given that it's in the passenger side it seems like it may have been the driver of the Vanagon that went off-track. Where's our motor vehicle forensics expert?

Sun Dec 09, 2018 6:51 pm

For some reason I want to think it went off an embankment and crashed into rocks upside down.
Or actually not upside down but nose and passenger side down.

Sun Dec 09, 2018 7:25 pm

My best guess is they hit a structure of some kind, building wall or something similar.

There is no impression of anything the size of the average car indented into the metal unless he rear-ended Fedex truck or something like that.

Wed Dec 12, 2018 8:27 am

Steve M. wrote: My best guess is they hit a structure of some kind, building wall or something similar.

There is no impression of anything the size of the average car indented into the metal unless he rear-ended Fedex truck or something like that.

It looks more like something hit it vs it crashing, like a slow moving tractor.

I think an impact like that would have sent the hubcaps flying off.

Wed Dec 12, 2018 12:50 pm

I think you see both damage from accident and extrication there, like A pillar cuts

Thu Jan 17, 2019 6:45 am

https://www.ebay.com/itm/PASSENGER-RIGHT-LOWER-CON...59035a430c

found on ebay

Thu Jan 17, 2019 7:24 am

OUCHA

Thu Jan 17, 2019 10:38 am

I really like the option of getting the 1 yr. warranty for that ebay ad for only $14.99! :lol:

Hope they weren't hurt too bad in the accident.

Thu Jan 17, 2019 4:21 pm

Every death is N-1 on the inexorable slope to 0.

Wanes poetically.

That will not buff out.

I dare someone to put that pic on an RFQ and send to Don.

Fri Jan 18, 2019 1:25 pm

a new threat to Vanagons. Wonder how many barn yard finds are lost due to wildland fires?

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/18/pentagon-military-installations-climate-1098095

Sat Jan 19, 2019 4:25 am

"Is that your boat?"

Thu Feb 21, 2019 11:43 am

Not sure if this is a recent or an old picture, but ouch. I park under some big trees and worry when we get wind storms.

Thu Feb 21, 2019 12:38 pm

^^^ I believe that is Ron Salmon's (Bus Depot). If so it is an old post but still a testament to how strong these bodies are.

Thu Feb 21, 2019 2:48 pm

Or a testament to how strong those windows are.
are they still intact or am I seeing things.

Thu Feb 21, 2019 3:30 pm

vwhammer wrote: Or a testament to how strong those windows are.
are they still intact or am I seeing things.
Yeah, that's some tough glass!!!

Thu Feb 21, 2019 5:33 pm

Accessory Trunk?

Out on a limb?

Vanagon Samba Branch?

Fri Feb 22, 2019 6:05 am

Abscate wrote: Accessory Trunk?

Out on a limb?

Vanagon Samba Branch?
He was lucky. It could have been a Doaka.

Brrrrump! Thank you!