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jimf909 
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 Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 7:48 am Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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Seen in Ponderay, ID a few weeks back. While I was taking this photo a split drove by in the snow. Seeing a high-top and a splittie seemed unusual but I don't know these parts very well.
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Current: 1990 Westy Camper - Bostig RG4, 2wd, manual trans w/Peloquin, NAHT high-top, 280 ah LFP battery, 160 watts solar, Flash Silver, seam rust, bondo, etc., etc.
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Steve M.
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| Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2021 5:28 pm Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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I had to go pick up the mail today at Palm Harbor Marina and found a Westie tucked away in the corner of the parking lot when I pulled in. It's got to be a yachtie since it strategically located for long term parking where it will get the least dents! (it's a lousy lot for parking.)
West Palm Beach, FL.
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Zeitgeist 13
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| Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2021 5:42 pm Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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Pend Oreille
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Love My Westy
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| Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2021 9:56 pm Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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I looked it up on Google. The town is Ponderay. It is located on Lake Pend Oreille (pronounced Ponderay). It's an Idaho thing. |
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Zeitgeist 13
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| Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2021 12:52 am Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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That's pretty funny. I grew up in the eastern suburbs of Spokane, so I've probably heard of Ponderay in the news reports, but never knew it was its own bastardization of the French. Idaho is really weird. Really really weird.
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campism
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| Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2021 5:56 am Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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What about Colorado's own Purgatoire River, known locally to non-French speakers as the Picketwire?
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kjack2122
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| Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2021 10:05 pm Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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Tacoma, WA |
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jimf909
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| Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2021 11:01 pm Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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| Zeitgeist 13 wrote: |
| That's pretty funny. I grew up in the eastern suburbs of Spokane, so I've probably heard of Ponderay in the news reports, but never knew it was its own bastardization of the French. Idaho is really weird. Really really weird. |
Correct on all counts.
Lake Pend Oreille drains into the Pend Oreille River and is surrounded by a dozen or more other things named Pend Oreille but by time the hillbillies from the east (or wherever) came to create the metropolis of 1,137 citizens they changed the spelling to precisely how it sounds. It's a kindness extended to the rest of us hillbillies who try to call the lake "Penned Oriole".
My French runs out of gas at cul de sac.
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Current: 1990 Westy Camper - Bostig RG4, 2wd, manual trans w/Peloquin, NAHT high-top, 280 ah LFP battery, 160 watts solar, Flash Silver, seam rust, bondo, etc., etc.
Past: 1985 Westy Camper - 1.9 wbx, 2wd, manual trans, Merian Brown, (sold after 17 years to Northwesty who converted it to a Syncro). |
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4Gears4Tires
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| Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2021 8:51 am Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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Not omelette du fromage?
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Abscate
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| Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2021 11:24 am Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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Merci buckets
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campism
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| Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2021 3:52 pm Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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Michelin!
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MuzzcoVW
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| Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2021 8:21 am Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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| Westfield, MA. And there's soon to be another! |
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vanagonjr
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joetiger
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| Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2021 10:46 am Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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It's so great to see Sunny back on the road and being used and abused as intended!
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Love My Westy
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| Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2021 8:23 pm Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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Carrying bikes like that is how I burned up my rear wiper motor. It accidentally got turned on and the rack restricted it's movement. |
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dobryan
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joyfulpursuit
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| Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2021 11:29 pm Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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Didn't get a picture of it, but spotted a Bordeaux Red Metallic Westy with a SA grill in Queen Anne, Seattle pulling into B & E Meats and Seafood. Had zero time to pull in with my e30 but wished I could've said hello, and perhaps offered a price on your Westy.  |
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| Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2021 2:18 pm Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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My wife's visiting her Mom in Belgium send me this picture
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Jake de Villiers
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TurtsMcSlow
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| Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2021 6:15 pm Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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Driving through a buddies neighborhood and came across this on a cul de sac.
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