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Klister
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Location: Washington
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Fellow skier at Snoqualmie Pass, WA. Not parking spot near you - should have a designated area!
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TopBud
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Joined: February 28, 2004
Posts: 1111
Location: Flagstaff AZ
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| Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2022 9:55 am Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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Spotted & parked next to a local westy at AZ Snowbowl, early season
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dodger tom
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Joined: March 25, 2013
Posts: 1264
Location: Central Coast, CA, but we're all still Ukrainian
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| Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2022 11:11 am Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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must be traveling through the central coast. too wet for a ride today?
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Rome
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Joined: June 02, 2004
Posts: 9640
Location: Pearl River, NY
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| Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2023 5:42 pm Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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| Had a very nice surprise sighting of a Vanagon Double-cab ("DoKa" in German, for Doppelkabine) on way to my office this morning, in north-eastern New Jersey! Drizzly weather so my crap cellphone camera could not get a sharp image; I enhanced it at home with Photoshop. "Transporter" emblem on the right. Larger than stock-diameter alloy rims. As the road went from single to 2 lanes I finally was able to catch up and pull next to it, then lowered the right window. Could hear the diesel engine, along with a nice turbo whistle as it accelerated. As I got even with the cab, there was nobody in the "driver's" seat- it was a right hand drive! Conventional NJ license plate. Driver was maybe in his 30's with bushy beard. I honked and gave thumbs up, then had to turn off. Montvale, NJ which is way north, just before the New York state border. |
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Da TOW'D
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Joined: December 25, 2005
Posts: 1321
Location: Bella Coma Canada
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| Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2023 7:36 pm Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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spotted in Kamloops BC a couple years ago-
looking good
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pnwkayaker
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Joined: April 01, 2008
Posts: 919
Location: Sammamish, WA
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| Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2023 7:54 pm Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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Couple interesting antennas in this van (including one at the top of the windshield?), need to show it to the HAM operator at home to get her input.
There seems to be some flat (slightly rounded) black item at the front of the pop top, could that be another antenna?
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spotted in Kamloops BC a couple years ago-
looking good |
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Da TOW'D
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Joined: December 25, 2005
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Location: Bella Coma Canada
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| Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2023 9:13 pm Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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waiting for the ferry crossing to NewFoundland
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Cdub!
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Joined: May 06, 2017
Posts: 67
Location: San Diego
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| Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2023 12:01 am Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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San Jose Del Cabo, Baja spotted in Chedraui parking lot past Weds afternoon. Colorado plates.
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Cdub!
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Joined: May 06, 2017
Posts: 67
Location: San Diego
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| Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 10:21 pm Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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And another one from the Chedraui grocery store in San Jose Del Cabo, Baja today  |
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tomtom50
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Location: Seattle
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They are thick as flies here in north Seattle.
Driving north as 3rd ave NW and 85th n in Ballard last week. I was at the light and there was one of us (me is my 87 Westy) on each corner North, South East and West bound.
In the 4-5 block radius of my house here in Fremont (again Seattle)there are at least 10 if not more. |
Yeah, I'm in Seattle too, but south (Beacon Hill). Around me they aren't rare but it's nothing like Ballard. I wouldn't be surprised if nowadays the highest Vanagon density world-wide is Ballard/Fremont/Wallingford. Maybe Portland has a similar hotspot. |
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charleslabri
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Location: Nashville/Yosemite
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I returned to san francisco this week after 2 years away and felt like i saw one on every block
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| Jake59 wrote: |
They are thick as flies here in north Seattle.
Driving north as 3rd ave NW and 85th n in Ballard last week. I was at the light and there was one of us (me is my 87 Westy) on each corner North, South East and West bound.
In the 4-5 block radius of my house here in Fremont (again Seattle)there are at least 10 if not more. |
Yeah, I'm in Seattle too, but south (Beacon Hill). Around me they aren't rare but it's nothing like Ballard. I wouldn't be surprised if nowadays the highest Vanagon density world-wide is Ballard/Fremont/Wallingford. Maybe Portland has a similar hotspot. |
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GoEverywhere
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Location: Portland, OR
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| charleslabri wrote: |
I returned to san francisco this week after 2 years away and felt like i saw one on every block
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| Jake59 wrote: |
They are thick as flies here in north Seattle.
Driving north as 3rd ave NW and 85th n in Ballard last week. I was at the light and there was one of us (me is my 87 Westy) on each corner North, South East and West bound.
In the 4-5 block radius of my house here in Fremont (again Seattle)there are at least 10 if not more. |
Yeah, I'm in Seattle too, but south (Beacon Hill). Around me they aren't rare but it's nothing like Ballard. I wouldn't be surprised if nowadays the highest Vanagon density world-wide is Ballard/Fremont/Wallingford. Maybe Portland has a similar hotspot. |
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I don't know if there's a specific hotspot in Portland, but they're literally everywhere. I see at least one nearly every time I go out somewhere thats more than 10 minutes away. I know where there are around 10 within a 5 mile radius of my home in the suburbs. |
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Love My Westy
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| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2023 12:59 pm Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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| I can count eight within 1 mile radius of my house in Salt Lake City. There are three on my block alone. |
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1988M5
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Joined: January 23, 2016
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Location: Santa Cruz, CA
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| Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2023 11:55 am Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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For highest Vanagon density, I nominate Santa Cruz California. Ditto for Subarus.
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BrownEye02
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Joined: August 03, 2008
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Location: Colorado
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| Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2023 8:00 pm Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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To whoever was broke down on the i25 overpass near Mead CO, hopefully you got going again!? Looked like someone was already helping.
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0to60in6min
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Location: OR & CA (Oregon/California)
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| Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2023 1:34 pm Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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My daughter sent me this while camping in Northern California. The next day another van pull in next to her site, the white one in the background.
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djkeev
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Location: Reading Pennsylvania
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joetiger 
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Location: denver
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| Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2023 7:27 am Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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I saw this one up in Golden on Saturday. All original '85 AW, still had all of the cabinetry and stuff in it.
They posted it for sale a few months ago on CL for $50k. 
Considering the oxidized paint, dents, stains, and generally worn-in condition, it looked like a $10k project to me. But it is all original, so there's that.
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TopBud
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Location: Flagstaff AZ
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| Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2023 6:29 am Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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2/21/23 Saw a red westy with a roof top bag in the luggage rack on Highway 89 North a bit out of Big Water, UT. I was in my syncro coming off a dirt road to the North! no time for a picture
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4Gears4Tires
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| Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2023 10:46 am Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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To whoever was broke down on the i25 overpass near Mead CO, hopefully you got going again!? Looked like someone was already helping.
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That was just the engine donor vehicle pulling up for a swap.
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