Vanagon featured in article on living small

[Vashon]

Anyone here own one of these featured vans? Just thought this article was entertaining enough to share. https://www.finance101.com/weird-homes/?utm_source...s_v10_0410

[jimf909]

That looks like the wheresmyofficenow bikini/yoga photo studio (although it looks like they've become a bit more multi-dimensional in generating revenue, previously it seemed 90% of their photos were of one of the occupants in a bikini or less). Good for them.

http://wheresmyofficenow.com/
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[llilibel03]

We met the wheresmyofficenow couple in Mendocino/Fort Bragg a few years ago. They had already been at it a while so they were on the leading edge of the fad. I wonder what happens when #vanlife becomes recognized as a fad and then all the hip people have to try to find something else to do? That is, if it is a fad? I thought tattooing was going to be a fad and that all the tattooed folks would be walking around by now looking like flower children in bell bottom pants...
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87 syncro tintop
90 gl tin top
85 westy 2.0 tiico automatic (present)

[JudoJeff]

Been into tiny houses for a long time. Article was a PITA to read, totally smothered in ads.
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1989 Vanagon GL Westfalia Camper, Burned up on 7/31/16.
1987 Vanagon GL Westfalia Camper, Bostig & Rebuilt, sold
1986 Vanagon GL Westfalia Camper, Bostig Sold May 10, 2021
1999 Ford GTRV Westfalia camper (30% bigger Westy layout)

[Sodo]

[Vashon]

It ia PITA to read. . I really hate sildeshow formats . Yet becau
se they showed vanagon first I thought it was ,well at least abit entertaining. It was cool that before all the bling of modern groovy(expensive sunset magazine like) "living small" stuff they at least ,(perhaps unknowing )showed our little vehicle that for many started it all .

[Sodo]

Yup gotta check it out when it starts with a Vanagon
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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

[jimf909]

[Zeitgeist 13]

Just telling everyone to wear a bikini is probably going to backfire at some point. My budget for waxing will no doubt kill any profits I earn
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Casey--

'89 Bluestar ALH w/12mm Waldo pump, PP764 and GT2052
'01 Weekender --> full camper
y u rune klassik?

[Steve M.]

[Eric_Taylor]

[E1]

I can't imagine interest fading when for every owner we meet there's ten that want to be.

And there's still nothing like them in at least dozens of ways.

I'm banking on steady value increase, and in ways far healthier than just the money bit.

The van we've owned for a week gained about $855 in 35 years after the window sticker, like $.68/day. I know of no other popcorn-making and Munster-watching and Zeppelin-playing rolling theater that can touch that -- despite the regular glitches we just gotta suck up in trade.


PS -- Steve M., my condolences, though not entirely without relief.
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‘84 Westy, 2.1L with Digijet, 5.43 R+P, GT Gears
"Adding power makes you faster on the straights.
Subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere."
— Colin Chapman

[dabaron]

deslidified... i hate slide show page click ad boosters


http://desli.de/?o=html_table&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.finance101.com%2Fweird-homes%2F
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1991 Vanagon GL Camper
i had no idea i wanted to be a mechanic
"burnin oil and cookin coils" -- Destructo

BiWerks Design, LLC

[dabaron]

[E1]

Partly true on finding ways to make dreams true, but only partly.

Most who tell us this are young and not able to afford one yet. If our country's past economic realities were still present, they'd already have one. It's a very tough time to be a 20-something.
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‘84 Westy, 2.1L with Digijet, 5.43 R+P, GT Gears
"Adding power makes you faster on the straights.
Subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere."
— Colin Chapman

[bobbyblack]

[dabaron]

[E1]

With Ya Bobby, I feel mostly the same also.

So far as the engine-building kid with a van, I presume there's a supportive parent or two behind him. We've literally met hundreds of 20-somethings on the road, and for most their "luxury items" are insurmountable student loans in fields they can't find jobs in.

The mistakes in their lives are born from a nation gone wrong, and not of their doing. Anyone old enough to remember the opportunities available them/us forty years ago sees this clear as day, if they choose to look beyond themselves.

The ones dreaming of a bus have all been great kids whose fortunes should not be confused with lack of effort -- but rather circumstances others are lucky in not having. Damned lucky, in fact.
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‘84 Westy, 2.1L with Digijet, 5.43 R+P, GT Gears
"Adding power makes you faster on the straights.
Subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere."
— Colin Chapman

[JudoJeff]

The comments about a tiny house with big building to work in are spot on! I live in a small house, (400 SF), with a large garage. Spent the first winter here building it. (My electrical work received high praise, not so much my plastering skills...)

Live on a lake, perfect fit for my lifestyle!

Don’t know how today’s college grads will cope, with high debt and piss-poor attitudes and skills. Expecting the government to step in won’t work. Oh well....
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1989 Vanagon GL Westfalia Camper, Burned up on 7/31/16.
1987 Vanagon GL Westfalia Camper, Bostig & Rebuilt, sold
1986 Vanagon GL Westfalia Camper, Bostig Sold May 10, 2021
1999 Ford GTRV Westfalia camper (30% bigger Westy layout)