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bjrogers86auto
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Joined: March 26, 2009
Posts: 1375
Location: Halifax, N.S.
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 Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2020 3:44 am Post subject: Thank you Samba! |
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This past July, after 12 years of van ownership, we have sold our 86 Westy. It was a fantastic adventure with 90,000 kms of memories. We travelled coast to coast with two kids and all around the Maritime provinces here on the East Coast of Canada. The success of many of those trips were in part this website and the info gleaned and provided here. I have made friends within the community and one directly from here on Thesamba. I cannot express enough how thankful I am for all the help and advice provided by so many people here!!!
Thank you!!!
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86 Vanagon GL Westfalia 2.1
18 Nissan Frontier Pro 4X
19 Honda Civic Hatchback
A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day. Calvin and Hobbes. |
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campism
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Joined: September 07, 2007
Posts: 4492
Location: Richmond VA
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| Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2020 4:39 am Post subject: Re: Thank you Samba! |
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Sorry to see you go but when the time comes to move on you must. You can always get another Vanagon!
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Steve M.
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Joined: July 30, 2013
Posts: 6833
Location: Fort Lauderdale, Fl.
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| Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2020 5:12 am Post subject: Re: Thank you Samba! |
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Good on you, but you're going to miss us! 
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danfromsyr
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Joined: March 01, 2004
Posts: 15144
Location: Syracuse, NY
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| Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2020 5:35 am Post subject: Re: Thank you Samba! |
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I'll pop the top in your honor..
it's been good hearing your stories and insights over the years..
I've never been to N.S. but it's always been on my travel wish list. |
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the joker
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Joined: October 12, 2006
Posts: 1287
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| Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2020 5:13 pm Post subject: Re: Thank you Samba! |
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So long  but you never know  VW are a hard habit to break 
I have been to NS, with my westy, it was awesome , just wish we had more time there, maybe be back someday. |
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bjrogers86auto
Samba Member
Joined: March 26, 2009
Posts: 1375
Location: Halifax, N.S.
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| Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2020 1:30 pm Post subject: Re: Thank you Samba! |
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Not an easy decision as you all can imagine. I was getting tired of the cycle of maintenance and decided it was a good time to make a change.
Definitely going to miss driving her...
This is an awesome community and I will miss it for sure!
Brian
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86 Vanagon GL Westfalia 2.1
18 Nissan Frontier Pro 4X
19 Honda Civic Hatchback
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Corwyn 
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Joined: December 29, 2009
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Location: Olympia, Washington
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rogertj
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Joined: October 07, 2008
Posts: 505
Location: Tijuana, Baja California. Mexico
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| Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2020 5:30 pm Post subject: Re: Thank you Samba! |
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| bjrogers86auto wrote: |
Not an easy decision as you all can imagine. I was getting tired of the cycle of maintenance and decided it was a good time to make a change.
Definitely going to miss driving her...
This is an awesome community and I will miss it for sure!
Brian |
So whats next in the list? The new European VW California van?
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Roger
Had a Carbureted ABA after engoing the heck out of it now going for ABA 2.0 Jetta EFI ill put a garrett in to the tin can later or maybe go electric?
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=...mp;start=0 |
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16CVs
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Joined: February 22, 2004
Posts: 4026
Location: Redwood City, California
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| Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2020 7:38 pm Post subject: Re: Thank you Samba! |
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So what you list it for and what did it sell for? Always interested in real world selling numbers.
Stacy
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bjrogers86auto
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Joined: March 26, 2009
Posts: 1375
Location: Halifax, N.S.
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| Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2020 6:03 am Post subject: Re: Thank you Samba! |
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| rogertj wrote: |
| bjrogers86auto wrote: |
Not an easy decision as you all can imagine. I was getting tired of the cycle of maintenance and decided it was a good time to make a change.
Definitely going to miss driving her...
This is an awesome community and I will miss it for sure!
Brian |
So whats next in the list? The new European VW California van? |
We bought a T@B 320 teardrop trailer this summer. It's small, like a westy, packed with conveniences, like a westy, great sleep, like a westy without any mechanical. 
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86 Vanagon GL Westfalia 2.1
18 Nissan Frontier Pro 4X
19 Honda Civic Hatchback
A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day. Calvin and Hobbes. |
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Timwhy
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Joined: January 01, 2009
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Location: Maine
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rogertj
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Joined: October 07, 2008
Posts: 505
Location: Tijuana, Baja California. Mexico
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| Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2020 3:19 am Post subject: Re: Thank you Samba! |
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| bjrogers86auto wrote: |
| We bought a T@B 320 teardrop trailer this summer. It's small, like a westy, packed with conveniences, like a westy, great sleep, like a westy without any mechanical. |
Does are really fun trailer a friend actually built one himself. I was in the proyect of building trailers some years ago but the proyect never took off the ground. When I went to his house I was like awwwwwww
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Roger
Had a Carbureted ABA after engoing the heck out of it now going for ABA 2.0 Jetta EFI ill put a garrett in to the tin can later or maybe go electric?
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=...mp;start=0 |
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bjrogers86auto
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Joined: March 26, 2009
Posts: 1375
Location: Halifax, N.S.
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| Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2020 5:10 am Post subject: Re: Thank you Samba! |
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| Timwhy wrote: |
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| and one directly from here on Thesamba. |
I think I know that Guy!
Hope to see you and the Fam in 2021, we miss you guys! |
One way or another...may be some illegal border crossing in our future!
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86 Vanagon GL Westfalia 2.1
18 Nissan Frontier Pro 4X
19 Honda Civic Hatchback
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DanHoug
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Joined: December 05, 2016
Posts: 4800
Location: Bemidji, MN
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| Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2021 5:16 pm Post subject: Re: Thank you Samba! |
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12 years of ownership? may have been long enough to be infected with The Spore. Gerry Skerbitz, of the original vanagon@lenti, likened owning VWs to having a Spore invade your body... you know against all reason that you should move on but you keep coming back.
i swore off VWs when i gave away my '87 Westy for $600 to a friend. i was done with frozen brake calipers, leaking heads, low compression, etc. bought the exact one back 13 years later for $1200 and it was untouched, stored in a storage unit. same friend sold it back, thank you. refurbed it, would drive it anywhere with only an oil change. hope you've been vaccinated.
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DuncanS
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Joined: October 17, 2013
Posts: 4583
Location: New Hampshire
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| Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2021 1:08 am Post subject: Re: Thank you Samba! |
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| Vacination against Vanagon ownership? Given the number of us in the entire US population, it seems there is already herd immunity. Only a very few unfortunate? lucky? seem to get this wonderful virus. |
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dobryan
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Joined: March 24, 2006
Posts: 16508
Location: Brookeville, MD
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| Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2021 6:23 am Post subject: Re: Thank you Samba! |
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| DanHoug wrote: |
i swore off VWs when i gave away my '87 Westy for $600 to a friend. i was done with frozen brake calipers, leaking heads, low compression, etc. bought the exact one back 13 years later for $1200 and it was untouched, stored in a storage unit. same friend sold it back, thank you. refurbed it, would drive it anywhere with only an oil change. hope you've been vaccinated. |
Cool. You only paid your friend $50 a year to store it for you. Would he store mine too? 
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'87 Westy w/ 2002 Subaru EJ25 and Peloquin TBD
"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive." Robert Louis Stevenson
MD>Canada>AK>WA>OR>CA>AZ>UT>WY>SD
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=620646
Building a bus for travel in Europe (euroBus)
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=695371
The Western Syncro build
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=746794 |
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Hounddogs
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Joined: December 06, 2019
Posts: 41
Location: Puget Sound, WA
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| Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2021 3:50 pm Post subject: Re: Thank you Samba! |
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Yeah.... I left once too....
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