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mightyart
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 Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2020 8:06 am Post subject: It's time to Van-again |
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My how the Vanagon forum has grown.
Once upon a time, Vanagons were the hated VW bus, with their fancy water cooling.
Eurovans and Vanagons were lumped into one forum, and it was a ghost town.
I even had to fight with the other bus guys, the fact that a Vanagon was indeed a "bus". (IT IS).
Time marches on, and things change. I've went through a few cars since then, but I always kept the Bus. I pretty much just parked it and hadn't had much ambition to work on it. last time I really did much to it was when I got it here.
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=577684
I've kept it just in case our sketchy economy went belly up, and I had to bug out.
It seems that is happening, so now I'm getting it back on the road again, and maybe traveling soon....
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dabaron
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| Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2020 12:13 pm Post subject: Re: It's time to Van-again |
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welcome back, your dreams are your ticket out. 
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VdubVanner
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| Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2020 2:12 pm Post subject: Re: It's time to Van-again |
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Have fun! And keep a tight grip on your wallet. 
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shadetreemech
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| Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2020 10:21 pm Post subject: Re: It's time to Van-again |
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Welcome back. Change your fuel lines.
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mightyart
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MsTaboo
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| Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2020 4:45 pm Post subject: Re: It's time to Van-again |
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Hey Mightyart, welcome back!
Yep. Vanagon = Bus. Forward cab controls, rear engine, rear wheel drive, 4x4, AWD.
(unlike those pesky minivans (front engine, front wheel drive) that we finally drove away to their own forum.) 
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crukab
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| Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2020 5:03 pm Post subject: Re: It's time to Van-again |
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Good to see you back Art !!
Some of us just hang in the haze of Bus land, Vanagons, Bays , Splits.
I think we bought out 1st Vanagoon in '97, a '86 Gold beater Van, filling the void of our '71 tintop Westy that had given up on it's latest engine, found our '91 Carat/Wlfy. a year later, a '91 for $9800 in 1998 w/ 45 K on the clock, a few years later my wife was bitching about the Rabbit truck being to small, 2 seater, rattlie ect., so I found our '86 Doka, that shut her up...  
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In the yard right now:
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'65 Bug
'66 Singlecab
'82 Rabbit Truck Diesel from CALI 
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