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earlybayjim
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Joined: July 12, 2013
Posts: 249
Location: East Dubuque, IL
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This late model full Westy taunts me as I travel through the Prairie of the Dogs. Looks to be running, moves from time to time as I spy by.
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Is this in Prairie du Chein, Wisconsin?
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4Gears4Tires
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Joined: October 08, 2018
Posts: 3152
Location: MD
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| Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2024 5:02 pm Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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I went to get mulch today and a friend of my brother's spotted me! 
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bobhill8
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Joined: June 09, 2017
Posts: 745
Location: MA
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| Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2024 6:44 pm Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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to earlybayjim, yes, that is Prairie of "the dogs" as Bobby called it. I had to look it up.
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elizer 
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Joined: May 02, 2016
Posts: 1484
Location: Northern Virginia
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| Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2024 11:27 am Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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GF went to tahoe and LA and saw these.
Auto Meister in El Segundo
And a pretty Orly Blue Syncro in Truckee.
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Love My Westy
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Joined: August 08, 2007
Posts: 1849
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| Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2024 7:18 pm Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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| Silver 1990 Syncro Camper with for sale sign (didn't list a price). RMW bumpers, rear tire carrier, SA Grille, truck mirrors, rock sliders. Extensive rust on body, seams, windows, even the front RMW bumper. Seems like the perfect van if your into that sort of thing. Parked on street in Salt Lake City. I took photos but didn't want to embarass anyone. |
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jimf909
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Joined: April 03, 2014
Posts: 7517
Location: WA/ID
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| Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2024 7:24 pm Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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I think this collection in Idaho is growing.
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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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Joined: November 19, 2017
Posts: 682
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| Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2024 1:49 pm Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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Cape Cod 4-27-24
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Shonandb
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Joined: January 12, 2019
Posts: 1261
Location: Vancouver, BC
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| Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2024 11:42 am Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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Saw a couple on my way Downtown over the weekend.
A Syncro
& a Camper
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Joined: November 19, 2017
Posts: 682
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| Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2024 4:03 pm Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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MV 4-28-24
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dieseltdi
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Joined: September 07, 2006
Posts: 540
Location: Grapevine, Texas
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| Posted: Thu May 09, 2024 7:48 pm Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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Wife and I just got back from a 4300 mile trip from Texas to Maine (Mount Desert Island and Acadia Nat. Park, across New Hampshire and Vermont (great Ben and Jerry's ice cream stop) and through the Adirondack Park in New York and back home) not in the Vanagon but still in a VW Golf Sportwagen TDI. Anyway, I kept my eyes pealed for any VWs that might pop up along the way. We drove interstate, lots of back roads and..... not a single Vanagon of any sort anywhere along the route. We did see 9 bugs, only 3 looked drivable and 2 Bay window buses, one a nice Westfalia, the other a rusting hulk. No pictures as I did all the driving and wife wasn't fast enough. Where were all you mid south, Virginia, Pennsylvania and New England people with your Vanagons? Are you still hiding from the salt? Anyway, it was a great trip and now I have been to all the 48 continuous states. Now for Alaska and Hawai'i! Hayden
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jlrftype7
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Joined: July 24, 2018
Posts: 3628
Location: Chicago
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| Posted: Fri May 10, 2024 11:03 am Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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Only Vanagon I've seen recently that I could get pictures of , is this Westy that's sitting at a repair shop in Wilmette IL. Reported to be an '87,
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'68 Westy- my first VW and vehicle/Bus- long gone.- sold it to a traveling Swiss couple....
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'69 Semi-Auto Stick Shift Beetle-gone
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LarsHepping
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Joined: September 03, 2020
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Location: Deep in the woods
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| Posted: Fri May 10, 2024 11:09 am Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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Only Vanagon I've seen recently that I could get pictures of , is this Westy that's sitting at a repair shop in Wilmette IL. Reported to be an '87,
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Looks to be in very nice shape from the outside. But the Wyoming plate in IL suggests a road trip gone wrong. Did you get the story behind it? |
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jlrftype7
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Location: Chicago
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| Posted: Fri May 10, 2024 2:27 pm Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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| Looks to be in very nice shape from the outside. But the Wyoming plate in IL suggests a road trip gone wrong. Did you get the story behind it? |
I would agree with your 'trip gone wrong' assessment...  
But no, I popped in for a couple of Pictures since it was one of those, HEY, that's a Vanagon!!!... wonder what it's doing there???, type things...
A friend later called the shop as he knows the owner of the Shop, it's for sale, $30,000. No mention of why it was there, or did something break down on the owner... 
He didn't bother to ask the 'pertinent' questions that Samba members would want to know....  
If anyone's game, it's at Wilmette Auto Repair. Wilmette IL, on Green Bay Rd
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'67 Type 3 Fastback, my 2nd car- gone
'69 Semi-Auto Stick Shift Beetle-gone
2017 MINI Coopers, our current DDs
‘84 Tin Top - Hilga....Auto |
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eugenev
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Joined: November 19, 2018
Posts: 100
Location: Riverside
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| Posted: Sat May 11, 2024 12:57 pm Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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Good enough in a war zone. Not my photo
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4Gears4Tires
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Joined: October 08, 2018
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Location: MD
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| Posted: Mon May 13, 2024 9:07 am Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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At the top Mt Mitchell, NC another Vanagon joined me!
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DavenpoWE
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Joined: August 11, 2022
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Location: Port orchard Washington
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| Posted: Mon May 13, 2024 9:13 am Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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| When I lived in Washington state, I saw about 2-3 a week. As I took my road trip to move to Virginia, I saw progressively less once we passed the Mississippi I saw about 0 sense them. This was in summer of 2023 I moved to Virginia |
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jlrftype7
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Location: Chicago
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| Posted: Mon May 13, 2024 9:23 am Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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| When I lived in Washington state, I saw about 2-3 a week. As I took my road trip to move to Virginia, I saw progressively less once we passed the Mississippi I saw about 0 sense them. This was in summer of 2023 I moved to Virginia |
It's almost that bad here in Chicago. There is an Air Cooled Westy that I saw several times on the Northside of Chicago last year, haven't seen them yet this year. Assuan Brown. Sounded and looked good last year.
A few blocks away from our house, there used to be a Volvo swap-engined Vanagon Tin Top that a Dog Walking Service used. That was as close to a West Coast Vanagon scene as we ever got. With two running Tin Tops in such close proximity to each other....
I think it got hit pretty hard in an accident, and I haven't seen it in a few years from when I saw it parked outside a Body Shop a few miles North of me.
So, we're kind of it in terms of running Vanagons around here. Holding up the 'breed' all by ourselves...
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'67 Type 3 Fastback, my 2nd car- gone
'69 Semi-Auto Stick Shift Beetle-gone
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‘84 Tin Top - Hilga....Auto |
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campism
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Joined: September 07, 2007
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Location: Richmond VA
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| Posted: Wed May 15, 2024 2:54 pm Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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Seen in the Fan District today, a few blocks from my old neighborhood.
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TopBud
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Posts: 1115
Location: Flagstaff AZ
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| Posted: Wed May 15, 2024 7:06 pm Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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Flagstaff, AZ
Overland expo weekend, so lots of expensive overland rigs in town. Nothing as cool as vw's. This one was from Louisiana. I hung out for a bit but never ran into the owner. Mine is the tin top.
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Shonandb
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Location: Vancouver, BC
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| Posted: Thu May 16, 2024 9:43 am Post subject: Re: Have you SEEN ONE on the road lately? Vanagon Spotters Thread |
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I was out in my Bus yesterday afternoon in Surrey and saw two Vanagons heading south on 17 towards the border. One had a roof box and kayaks. Couldn't get a pic.
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