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MarkWard
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| Shaun, very nice work. Two questions about shipping the Vanagon to Europe. I noticed the propane tank looks to still be attached. Do you need to remove it and is it useable in Europe? Also, how are you shipping it and about how much? I notice your location is in California. |
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shaun0008
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Two questions about shipping the Vanagon to Europe. I noticed the propane tank looks to still be attached. Do you need to remove it and is it useable in Europe? Also, how are you shipping it and about how much? I notice your location is in California.
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The propane tank stays attached to the van during shipping, Germany uses the same type of tank filler we do, England, France, Italy each have there own type filler so you need to either buy adapters for each country you visit or hope that a bigger station might have an adaptor that you could use. The three gallon propane tank has never run out on me yet on my six week trips. that is with the fridge running all the time and cooking three meals a day. Shipping is by slow boat and about $3,500 or so.
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otiswesty
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Nice work dude! Looks way better now.
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insyncro
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| Positively impressive. |
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ALIKA T3
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Two questions about shipping the Vanagon to Europe. I noticed the propane tank looks to still be attached. Do you need to remove it and is it useable in Europe? Also, how are you shipping it and about how much? I notice your location is in California.
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The propane tank stays attached to the van during shipping, Germany uses the same type of tank filler we do, England, France, Italy each have there own type filler so you need to either buy adapters for each country you visit or hope that a bigger station might have an adaptor that you could use. The three gallon propane tank has never run out on me yet on my six week trips. that is with the fridge running all the time and cooking three meals a day. Shipping is by slow boat and about $3,500 or so. |
That's 6 weeks on propane??
Damn,mine: fridge on+ cooking twice a day lasts 10 to 12 days. 
Nice work on the panels!!
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Tristar Eric
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Here's a few shots of the Van in europe last year...
In Brugge, Belgium...
Riding a ferry across the river in Belgium...
Filling the everlasting propane tank at a self serve LPG station in Germany. It wouldn't take our money, so we actually didn't top it up.
But we tried...
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BillM
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Slick mirror covers in the last shot. Care to elaborate on them? Would be great to keep the bugs off on a trip.
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shaun0008
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| Slick mirror covers in the last shot. Care to elaborate on them? Would be great to keep the bugs off on a trip. |
While Eric and I were in Germany the World Cup Soccor matches were being played in SA, and Germany was doing very well in the matches so there was a lot of pride being shown with the German flag. At many of the gas stations you could buy a large varity of products that had the flag on them, one of the items was the elastic cover for your side veiw mirrors on your car. We liked them and bought a few sets for a couple of Euros each and put a pair on the van in the photo.
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