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Zeitgeist 13
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 Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 12:50 pm Post subject: Re: Vanagons in electronic media: film, Internet, games, etc. |
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The movie Beirut has lots of Vanagon sightings and even starring role as the vehicle of choice for several scenes.
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PDXWesty
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| Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 1:01 pm Post subject: Re: Vanagons in electronic media: film, Internet, games, etc. |
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Quote from the Article:
http://www.wweek.com/culture/2018/06/26/the-portla...all-wrong/
I decided I wanted to photograph a bunch of people for the next book, and thought buying a van and traveling around in it would be a good start. At the time [2010], vans weren't even remotely the thing they are now. I would look at vans on this forum called the Samba, and I would daydream while looking at them.
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Abscate
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| Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 2:16 pm Post subject: Re: Vanagons in electronic media: film, Internet, games, etc. |
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Yeah, you invented 'vans'
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Zeitgeist 13
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| Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 3:17 pm Post subject: Re: Vanagons in electronic media: film, Internet, games, etc. |
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Hubris be thy name
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SyncroHead 
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| Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2018 8:48 am Post subject: Re: Vanagons in electronic media: film, Internet, games, etc. |
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Nice shot of a westy in a video about estimating the stars in the sky,
At 4:56 in the video on Vimeo here:
https://vimeo.com/275908702
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| I have *no* idea what the previous owner carried in his Westy... angry donkeys? |
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Zeitgeist 13
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| Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2018 2:25 pm Post subject: Re: Vanagons in electronic media: film, Internet, games, etc. |
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Not sure if this has been posted before, but I thought it might be of interest.
This guy sounds like the German version of Magnus Walker. His accent sounds strange to me, and I've never heard German spoken like this.
Link
Magnus
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Team WorldTour
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| Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2018 10:07 pm Post subject: Re: Vanagons in electronic media: film, Internet, games, etc. |
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| Zeitgeist 13 wrote: |
| This guy sounds like the German version of Magnus Walker. His accent sounds strange to me, and I've never heard German spoken like this. |
East German. License plate is from Rostock, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (upper right corner above Berlin, next to Poland).
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Zeitgeist 13
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| Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2018 10:27 pm Post subject: Re: Vanagons in electronic media: film, Internet, games, etc. |
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Ach so.
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mtnride1
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| Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2018 3:02 pm Post subject: Re: Vanagons in electronic media: film, Internet, games, etc. |
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Just saw an episode of Americas got Talent and they had a shot of the front end of a westy with a sign in the window I believe it said next stop AGT auditions.
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llilibel03
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| Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2018 11:23 am Post subject: Re: Vanagons in electronic media: film, Internet, games, etc. |
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On a flight from Chicago to Venice, Italy I watched a film titled "L'Italiano Medio", the average Italian. The guy is a environmentalist and kind of a loser. He becomes part of a group of environementalists whose car is....a Vanagon.
Very funny movie. Sorry I could not find any images online of the vanagon.
In Italian-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP3qVe8uh70
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llilibel03
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| Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2018 5:04 pm Post subject: Re: Vanagons in electronic media: film, Internet, games, etc. |
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I got an email advert form Luna Sandals (distance running is another of my passions).
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campism
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| Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2018 7:38 pm Post subject: Re: Vanagons in electronic media: film, Internet, games, etc. |
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Not a fun spotting, but on Frontline tonight during the UN Sex Abuse Scandal episode, some shots of traffic in the Central African Republic show Transporters, like a red and white one at about the 30-minute mark, but if you watch this to show see vans you'll be bummed out by the topic.
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Tobias Duncan
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| Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2018 7:51 pm Post subject: Re: Vanagons in electronic media: film, Internet, games, etc. |
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| llilibel03 wrote: |
I got an email advert form Luna Sandals (distance running is another of my passions).
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You run in sandals? |
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llilibel03
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| Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2018 9:31 am Post subject: Re: Vanagons in electronic media: film, Internet, games, etc. |
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| llilibel03 wrote: |
I got an email advert form Luna Sandals (distance running is another of my passions).
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Yes I do.
When I turned 50 my mid life crisis/challenge was, "Wonder if I can run a marathon?" I did. But after long training runs (anything over 12 miles) my knees would always be very sore. After the marathon I was limping.
Then a friend suggesting reading the book "Born to Run" about the Tarahumara Indians in Mexico and how they ran ridiculously long distances in sandals. I tried them. It took a long while to get used to them (mostly blisters and chafing) but I've now done 6 marathons and my knees have never really hurt again.
Also, I make my own and they cost about $20 a pair and one pair lasts me 3 marathons plus all the training.
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Team WorldTour
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| Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2018 10:23 am Post subject: Re: Vanagons in electronic media: film, Internet, games, etc. |
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Jake de Villiers
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campism
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| Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2018 8:47 pm Post subject: Re: Vanagons in electronic media: film, Internet, games, etc. |
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| Not a fun spotting, but on Frontline tonight during the UN Sex Abuse Scandal episode, some shots of traffic in the Central African Republic show Transporters, like a red and white one at about the 30-minute mark, but if you watch this to show see vans you'll be bummed out by the topic. |
Found a clip.
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| Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2018 12:56 pm Post subject: Re: Vanagons in electronic media: film, Internet, games, etc. |
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| I did NOT get a screen grab, but in the first 5 minutes of 'A Quiet Place' with Emily Blunt, you see the back end of a T3 parked outside of a grocery store. Sadly, when they leave the grocery store, the camera never pans back to that angle. |
We watched this movie last night, and yelled "Vanagon!" and my whole family shushed me. It's an intensely quiet movie...
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| Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2018 9:46 am Post subject: Re: Vanagons in electronic media: film, Internet, games, etc. |
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We've been watching reruns of CHiPs lately and there's a VW in nearly every scene.
Sweet brown 78-'79 westy in last nights episode.
I used the search however CHiPs didn't come up if this is a dupe.
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levi
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| Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2018 4:17 pm Post subject: Re: Vanagons in electronic media: film, Internet, games, etc. |
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We've been watching reruns of CHiPs lately and there's a VW in nearly every scene.
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In the 70s the streets were full of vw's, and they were cheap too.
I must have bought 20 vw's in the 70s, bugs and split window buses, and never paid more than 300.
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