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TMI.... ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 8,321 Joined: 19-March 09 From: Orange, CA Member No.: 10,181 Region Association: Southern California ![]() ![]() |
(IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif) ....1000 words....
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Retired & living the dream. God help me if I wake up! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 8,911 Joined: 2-December 06 From: So.Cal. & No.AZ (USA) Member No.: 7,300 Region Association: Southern California ![]() ![]() |
Egads ... there's more than one of those on the loose? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)
Actually, after looking at both pix more, I think it's the same one (note the slightly discolored sliding door mechanism panel at the rear), just with a different set of wheels and window decals ... |
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TMI.... ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 8,321 Joined: 19-March 09 From: Orange, CA Member No.: 10,181 Region Association: Southern California ![]() ![]() |
Egads ... there's more than one of those on the loose? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif) Actually, after looking at both pix more, I think it's the same one (note the slightly discolored sliding door mechanism panel at the rear), just with a different set of wheels and window decals ... Could be Mark!? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif) There was a build thread link to another site with that one too .... but more like a (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sawzall-smiley.gif) cut-n-paste or (IMG:style_emoticons/default/welder.gif) weld thread! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) IIRC it was Dave K who posted it a few years back on my topic, when I had said my wife wanted to know if she could pull her "new to us" vintage Avion trailer (sim. to old Airstream) with "her cute little van" ... as an option for her with her van. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) Tom /////// |
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914 Guru ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 5,068 Joined: 14-September 04 From: Mulholland SoCal Member No.: 2,755 Region Association: None ![]() ![]() |
Years ago I did see a stretched camper van at the VW Classic, in the OC (held every June) that was pretty rough.
The windshield banner read; "Westfailure" (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) |
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914 Neferati ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 5,146 Joined: 31-December 05 From: Pt. Townsend, WA Member No.: 5,344 Region Association: Pacific Northwest ![]() ![]() |
My Westy's license is Tintipi. This one could be Twintintipi.
There is a member here by the name of Otmar who has an EV 914 that also has a duplex Westy that is two different colors with a zipper painted at the junction. Last I heard he was going to mate a Tesla power train chassis to a Westy. Edit: turns out he's putting the Tesla power under his stretched Westy. Here's his blog: Stretchla |
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Retired & living the dream. God help me if I wake up! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 8,911 Joined: 2-December 06 From: So.Cal. & No.AZ (USA) Member No.: 7,300 Region Association: Southern California ![]() ![]() |
Years ago I did see a stretched camper van at the VW Classic, in the OC (held every June) that was pretty rough. The windshield banner read; "Westfailure" (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) Love it |
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Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 4,059 Joined: 2-January 03 From: Chicago 'burbs Member No.: 73 Region Association: Upper MidWest ![]() ![]() |
The good news is that the pic at the top IS the same van as the one for sale on the previous page. Looking at the pics there's not a LOT more room in there than a regular Westy. Would be fun to drop that off at the valet though (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) .
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TMI.... ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 8,321 Joined: 19-March 09 From: Orange, CA Member No.: 10,181 Region Association: Southern California ![]() ![]() |
Mark - I think I saw that Westfailure there too! .... Hilarious!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
Frankly, I think that one of those little lightweight Euro trailers like an Eriba Puck in tow with a Westy is a better solution for added camping space, than a 2x Westy. They're <1000 lbs. & within the limited towing capacity of a Splitty, Bay or WBX/Vano Westy, cuz they were designed for Bugs & other small Euro cars of the 50's-80's (& are still out there today). They occasionally show up FS on evil-bay & trailer sites, & we've seen a few here in SoCal at vintage trailer events, one pulled by a 2002 Cab (Euro), & a couple of others behind a Splitty & a Bay Window Van (tin-top non-Westies). That way you can leave the trailer unhitched, if you want to run off somewhere else in the van while camping, but still have the extra bed space for the kids, another couple, etc. Screened-in side awnings, rear hatch & side tents work well too to expand the enclosed space. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) Tom /////// |
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Major Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 2,200 Joined: 30-August 04 From: Cincinnati, OH Member No.: 2,660 Region Association: South East States ![]() ![]() |
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914 Guru ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 5,068 Joined: 14-September 04 From: Mulholland SoCal Member No.: 2,755 Region Association: None ![]() ![]() |
I'll take this little g63 6x6 from Sindelfingen.
Just a few clicks down the road from Wolfsburg (IMG:style_emoticons/default/pray.gif) ![]() |
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914 Guru ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 5,068 Joined: 14-September 04 From: Mulholland SoCal Member No.: 2,755 Region Association: None ![]() ![]() |
Found this pic in my archives;
My 3.2 Carrera syncro cutting it up in Whittier Narrows (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif) Photo credit: Les Bidrawn / European Car ![]() |
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Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 4,059 Joined: 2-January 03 From: Chicago 'burbs Member No.: 73 Region Association: Upper MidWest ![]() ![]() |
Awesome. Can only imagine the great noise it was making out back.
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Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 4,059 Joined: 2-January 03 From: Chicago 'burbs Member No.: 73 Region Association: Upper MidWest ![]() ![]() |
Don't click this link Doc....after reading your thread in the sandbox I wish I could buy this for you. Congratulations Daddy-O (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_pokal.gif) .
1991 Syncro The price of these is going nowhere but up. |
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Retired & living the dream. God help me if I wake up! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 8,911 Joined: 2-December 06 From: So.Cal. & No.AZ (USA) Member No.: 7,300 Region Association: Southern California ![]() ![]() |
Nooooooooooooooooooo (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif)
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Send me your transmission! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 23,041 Joined: 21-November 03 From: Loveland, OH 45140 Member No.: 1,372 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region ![]() ![]() |
Don't click this link Doc....after reading your thread in the sandbox I wish I could buy this for you. Congratulations Daddy-O (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_pokal.gif) . 1991 Syncro The price of these is going nowhere but up. Ya, nicer than one I saw go a few months ago. By the time I am up for another project like that, the costs will all be through the roof :/ |
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#156
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Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 930 Joined: 27-April 08 From: Potters Bar Herts UK Member No.: 8,978 Region Association: None ![]() |
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914 Neferati ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 5,146 Joined: 31-December 05 From: Pt. Townsend, WA Member No.: 5,344 Region Association: Pacific Northwest ![]() ![]() |
Really interesting information. I had no idea that the waterboxer had a six cylinder version. Just shows how anxious VW was to pull the plug on the rear engine van when they wouldn't even adopt an engine that would let the Vanagon get out of it's own way. You would have still have had an antiquated design, but at least you could climb a hill without having to resort to downshifting into second. I can't help but think about the EG33 which was designed in a comparable period that had dohc, coil over plug ignition, 4 valves per cylinder, no pushrods, proper head sealing, an exhaust system that didn't look like a bed of snakes and 230 hp with gobs of torque. There must have been a paper shortage in Wolfsburg and nobody was allowed to use a clean sheet. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/shades.gif) Thanks for posting that. |
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TMI.... ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 8,321 Joined: 19-March 09 From: Orange, CA Member No.: 10,181 Region Association: Southern California ![]() ![]() |
That's why Porsche did the Vanagon B32 Carrera with the flat-6 3.2L Carrera motor & all running gear, & they also told VW to put in a 6 when VW asked how they could stay competitive with the Dodge/Chrysler Caravan line & other competitors offering better 6's!
It's fun to google for both the Oettenget WBX-6 & Porsche B32 just to see what could've been, if VW wasn't so blind back then! ....as if they're not now, with that stooopid TDI cheater stunt! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) Tom /////// |
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Yacht Rigger ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1,803 Joined: 1-October 08 From: Granbury, TX Member No.: 9,601 Region Association: Southwest Region ![]() |
I've been under my Westy this weekend installing the Gowesty stainless coolant line kit and a new gas tank. That means all of the fuel system is new and the major coolant stuff has been handled. I'm doing everything forward of the firewall so she's ready for a Suby when the Water Boxer poops the bed....
This has been one of the bigest PITA jobs I've done on any car! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) |
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914 Guru ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 5,068 Joined: 14-September 04 From: Mulholland SoCal Member No.: 2,755 Region Association: None ![]() ![]() |
Awesome. Can only imagine the great noise it was making out back. MSDS 1.625" race headers into a 2 in / 2 out SS muffler. Even had custom rock guard skid plates under the exhaust system. Sounded like the Hollywood Bowl L.A. Phil (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) ![]() |
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