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campism
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Location: Richmond VA
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 Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2020 3:19 pm Post subject: Re: Pictures of my Westralia |
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I saw that trailer under construction (or repair) at Valley Westys in Staunton a few years ago.
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'87 Westy in Wolfram Grey Metallic, tragically crushed by a falling hickory tree in my own driveway and now gone, leaving me Vanagonless and with no plans to replace it, alas. |
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nij_tp
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Joined: March 30, 2010
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Location: Amherst NH
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| Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2020 4:18 pm Post subject: Re: Pictures of my Westralia |
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Thank you all for the kind words. The westrailia is currently in VA being painted the same blue as the 85. The 85 ended up with a 2006 2.5l Subaru VVT engine, which pulls quite nicely. Yes the guys at Valley Westies are good friends, Keith and his wife Tracey were actually in our wedding and Paul & Daria and Bob all drove up in convoy from VA to MA for the wedding. It was repair, we were making the front stronger as there were no cross tie-ins in the first pass and the join for the grill and windscreen had a little flex and cracked slightly allowing rust to form.
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1990 Vanagon GL _ Brunhilda (marked up as a Caravelle from new!) Just over 1/4 million miles, custom exhaust
1985 Vanagon GL - Josepha 140,000, Has a 2006 Forester 2.5 VVT custom exhaust
1989 Wolfsburg (Bluestar) - Walpurga
1989 Vanagon GL a parts bus
1984 Westralia
2006 Audi A4 2.0T with a unitronic tune
2007 Toyota Sequoia
1976 Mercury Capri 2.3l
1986 Honda Shadow VT700
2000 Suzuki Intruder VS800
1988 Kawasaki Voyager XII
2018 Chonda Hawk 250cc
1995 Subaru SVX (possible 3.3. swap) |
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nij_tp
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Joined: March 30, 2010
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Location: Amherst NH
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| Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2020 4:35 pm Post subject: Re: Pictures of my Westralia |
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| Badass...a Worthersee-mobile! Front lights work? |
Thats actually one of the things that it was at Valley Westies / C.A.R.S (Complete Auto 8 Silver Creek Drive Staunton VA) I found some MGB or classic Mini 7" headight buckets. These are fully sealed with the wires coming out of a small hole in the top. The Vanagon when the front was cut there ended up a hole that rain water easily navigated through. So we were solving that problem also re wiring it so that we had some LED lights up front.
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1990 Vanagon GL _ Brunhilda (marked up as a Caravelle from new!) Just over 1/4 million miles, custom exhaust
1985 Vanagon GL - Josepha 140,000, Has a 2006 Forester 2.5 VVT custom exhaust
1989 Wolfsburg (Bluestar) - Walpurga
1989 Vanagon GL a parts bus
1984 Westralia
2006 Audi A4 2.0T with a unitronic tune
2007 Toyota Sequoia
1976 Mercury Capri 2.3l
1986 Honda Shadow VT700
2000 Suzuki Intruder VS800
1988 Kawasaki Voyager XII
2018 Chonda Hawk 250cc
1995 Subaru SVX (possible 3.3. swap) |
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