SeattleTimes article about Westies (and PeaceVans)

[Sodo]

This little gem in the Sunday SeattleTimes brightened my Sodo day! Gonna have to go visit PeaceVans and see how things are going over there.... Seattle sure is a hotbed for vanagons, With NorthWesty and others. Looks like DragonflyVans moved (from Sodo !) to Montana.

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'90 Westy EJ25, 2Peloquins, 3knobs, pressure-oiled GT mainshaft, filtered, cooled gearbox
'87 Tintop w 47k 53k, '12 SmallCar EJ25, cooled filtered gearbox
....KTMs, GasGas, SPOT mtb

[2dogs1van]

Did you see what they rent for? $215/day, not including taxes or insurance. And I've been letting my friends use mine for free!

[djkeev]

FYI ..... This has been posted before, once the thread was completely removed, a second time only a post.

DO NOT post about the political aspects of the rental tax.
Talk about the article, talk about the Vans, talk about wgat ever........ the tax is there so don't talk about the tax politics of renting a Van, it WILL be removed.

Thank You all!!!! 👍

Dave
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[djkeev]

[joetiger]

As I said in a different thread (which rightfully was whacked,) I love when journalists get bitten by the Vanagon bug and decide to write about it. They offer a different perspective than you get from lifers like us.

Speaking of perspective, I think if Westy-curious people rented one for a weekend to experience the quirks and idiosyncrasies first hand for a couple of days, they'd be less inclined to go out and buy a project and expect it to get them to Tierra del Fuego on the day after purchase.
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'86 NAHT Vanagon GL Syncro/ supercharged ABA 2.0 "Pigpen"
'04 GTI 1.8T
'04 Golf R32

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[MidwestDrifter]

It really is a good idea to rent before diving into a 30+ year old hobby/obsession/lifestyle.

Loaning a well running vanagon to someone for the weekend is a terrible thing too do. Next thing you know they will get infected by the need for a camper van. Then they will start perusing craigslist and TheSamba classifieds obsessively.. Loaned my van to a friend. His wife still occasionally gives me the stink eye.
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[dobryan]

[Sodo]

[Zeitgeist 13]

Having been extremely poor and living out of my van in the past, I share the author's disinterest in camping as a leisure-time activity. It just sounds like work to me--like shoveling coal or stacking bricks for fun
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'89 Bluestar ALH w/12mm Waldo pump, PP764 and GT2052
'01 Weekender --> full camper
y u rune klassik?

[slo356]

[photogdave]

Nice to see some great PR for Peace Vans. I just had some work done there and they went out of their way to accommodate my needs and saved me a bunch of $$ with a professional diagnosis of a big problem.
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[levi]

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