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  • Hiace V8s... look and weep!
    Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
    Tue, 26 May 2009 12:47:20 +1200
    ...I am told that the Hiace ambulance had the Toyota Celsior 1UZ-F engine standard. -- Andrew Grebneff Dunedin, New Zealand Fossil preparator Mollusc, Toyota...
  • Vanagon Plastic Model question
    Historical mailing list - Tom Boldway
    Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:18:10 -0800
    ...VW BUS UN VW BUS ELF (Fire command truck) VW Krankentransporter (Ambulance) VW Polezi van (police command van) VW Combi Pesera (Mexican taxi/bus...
  • Re: FS 64 split winfow w/double door
    Historical mailing list
    Tue, 2 Jan 1996 12:30:23 -0800 (PST)
    ...He says the engine is What exactly is it? Kombi? Standard? Deluxe? Single cab? Double Cab? Ambulance? Panel? Thom -- > Hello, the lawyer lied. Thom...
  • Re: Removing Rear Springplate (Spring Plate Colors)
    Historical mailing list
    Wed, 15 May 1996 03:45:36 -0400
    ...Heavy Duty Bars, normally installed on Ambulances and most Commercial Models are Green as per Factory Microfiche. Green bars are very difficult to locate...
  • Re: Accidents in New York
    Historical mailing list - George Hahn
    Fri, 8 Jan 1999 22:15:22 -0700
    ...Your New York law sounds like what we used to call on the basketball court "No ambulance... no foul".
  • Re: Official Vanagon CB Channel
    Historical mailing list - David Marshall
    Thu, 18 Apr 2002 22:08:45 -0700
    ...ambulance, highway department - I can use it as a scanner if I like - the best part is, I could talk to the police, ambulance...
  • Joel- Change them stats!
    Historical mailing list - Robert J Schreiner
    Fri, 21 Jun 1996 09:04:12 -0400 (EDT)
    ...bus to my collection- a 1966 euro panel/homemade ambulance! A real beast,it's olive drab green(brush painted) with spotights and sirens...
  • Re: Re,First Aid Kits
    Historical mailing list - Jack
    Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:49:36 -0800
    ...Sorry, I'll back off now. //Jack On 27 Sep 2002, at 19:26, kevin obrien wrote: > I agree...nice if the Ambulance shows...
  • Re: Does a Rear Anti-Sway Bar Exist?
    Historical mailing list - Raimund Feussner
    Sat, 11 Aug 2001 14:14:27 +0200
    ...Originally, the ambulance versions used different rear trailer arms, but some people here in Germany use this stabilizer bar on the "normal-trailer-arm...
  • Oldest Bus in Britain
    Historical mailing list
    Tue, 7 Jan 92 08:56:49
    ...Owned by bus collector and VW addict Charlie Highgate (you may have seen him at Bad Camberg with his Hi-top ambulance) it is...
  • Re: more ebay.de oddities...ok, what the heck are these things?????
    Historical mailing list - TJ Hannink
    Fri, 28 Feb 2003 07:01:10 -0800
    ...the Russian on-line ETKA, they were for jumpseats for the ambulance interior package. ===== TJ Hannink Goldibox - 1987 Vanagon Camper, Wolfsburg Edition Winter Park...
  • Re: Alternator continuous-duty rating?
    Historical mailing list - Vanagon
    Sat, 22 Sep 2012 18:10:29 -0700
    ...But ambulance and military uses would be a direction to look. There was also an arrangement to put two alternators on for said uses...
  • Re: General engine bolt/nut sizes
    Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
    Sun, 13 Feb 2011 20:09:21 -0800
    ...Even the ones for the ambulance stretcher retaining latches that your bus doesn't have. <smile> You have to register for access to the...
  • 1/87 Scale vanagons
    Historical mailing list - Ken and Charlotte Miller
    Sun, 2 Feb 1997 02:38:46 -0500
    ...I got an od green single cab with US Army on the doors and an ambulance for $11. There also was a "Follow Me...
  • Re: Does a Rear Anti-Sway Bar Exist?
    Historical mailing list - Todd Last
    Sun, 19 Aug 2001 12:04:59 -0700
    ...You only have to > weld a mounting onto the rear trailer arms, were the 253 511 049 fits into. > > Originally, the ambulance versions used...
  • Re: Hiace V8s... look and weep!
    Historical mailing list - Sudhir Desai
    Mon, 25 May 2009 22:38:29 -0400
    ...2005, the 100-series, MWB. > > I am told that the Hiace ambulance had the Toyota Celsior 1UZ-F engine standard. > > -- > Andrew Grebneff > Dunedin, New...
  • Re: Vanagon Plastic Model question
    Historical mailing list - James Felder
    Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:01:04 -0600
    ...VW BUS UN > VW BUS ELF (Fire command truck) > VW Krankentransporter (Ambulance) > VW Polezi van (police command van) > VW Combi Pesera (Mexican taxi/bus...
  • Re: Thicker anti-sway bar
    Historical mailing list - Ed McLean
    Tue, 25 Apr 2017 17:30:19 -0400
    ...I believe the ambulance model came with the rear sway bar shown in the link below. The part number for this rear bar is...
  • very likely people have already seen this vanagon for sale .. his is my first real sitdown time with email since wednesday of last week so i hope you can forgive my tardy post
    Historical mailing list - Roger Whittaker
    Mon, 24 Dec 2012 00:10:57 -0800
    http://bringatrailer.com/2012/12/20/sorta-fast-response-team-1987-vw-vanagon-ambulance/ -- roger w From Proverbs: Under three things the earth trembles...
  • Re: Triple-A won't extricate you from just any old where
    Historical mailing list - Robert Stevens
    Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:00:33 -0600
    ...Not only won't tow services get you but if something happens neither will most ambulances and your insurance won't cover you or...
  • Re: High Top Vanagon???
    Historical mailing list
    Thu, 16 May 1996 21:45:35 -0300 (ADT)
    ...Looked like ambulance vehicle, offroad? Tim Smith
  • Re: Pre67 Sunroof Question
    Historical mailing list - Information Commons Help Desk
    Tue, 26 Mar 1996 15:26:49 -0500
    ...as thom says this was available optionally on all models cept' pickups and prolly ambulances I thought that the sunroof was an option only...
  • Re: bug o' rama report
    Historical mailing list - Thom Fitzpatrick
    Tue, 28 May 1996 13:58:27 -0700 (PDT)
    ...Small engine lid, barndoor nose, ambulance hatch. Thom -- > Lawyers do it with clause. Thom Fitzpatrick thom@calweb.com - http://www.calweb.com/~thom Keeper...
  • Re: Color codes?
    Historical mailing list - Richard A Jones
    Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:41:41 -0700
    ...Listed as "Ambulance".... When I bought my '67 Kombi--the first "new" car I ever bought (and almost the last....) there were three colors...
  • Lots of different vanagon models
    Historical mailing list - harald_nancy
    Sat, 4 Mar 2000 14:29:40 -0800
    ...A few german and french police vanagons, and some ex ambulances, and a dehler type raised roof ambulance. I think that one could be...
  • Front seat cots
    Historical mailing list - M.R. Nimmo
    Thu, 15 Jul 1999 02:52:32 +0000
    ...We rarely used it as an ambulance but often camped in it. It was the normal bluebird-type bus with all the benches facing...
  • Re: rear stablizer bar
    Historical mailing list - Dave Arthur
    Sat, 25 Jul 2009 15:47:26 -0300
    ...Does anybody on the list have or know where to buy a rear stabilizer > bar mounting kit for the Vanagon? I believe the ambulance...
  • Why I love my vanagon
    Historical mailing list - Jenny Loerzel
    Tue, 24 Apr 2001 14:14:28 -0500
    ...She was/is my personal ambulance. She enabled me to get out of the hospital much earlier after my injury. I was able to...
  • Re: yes, another proposed new van from VW
    Historical mailing list - Tim Demarest
    Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:22:21 -0400
    ...At 07:50 PM 9/20/2006 -0700, mad madeline wrote: >It looks like an old WWII Army ambulance! > >John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET...
  • Re: New GRABBERS and question on installing shocks
    Historical mailing list - Edward V Barger
    Sat, 12 Jan 2019 15:02:04 -0800
    In my travels about the world lots of 3rd world have seen them mostly used as busses, ambulance, pickup truck, etc etc We use...
  • Re: Pre67 Sunroof Question
    Historical mailing list - JOHNSON THOMAS H
    Tue, 26 Mar 1996 11:43:14 -0900 (AKST)
    > > A sunroof was an option on any model except the single/double cabs and > probably the ambulance. Yes, you could get a panel with...
  • Re: bus sighting...poor treatment in the movies?
    Historical mailing list - David Milo
    Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:10:14 -0400
    ...ME, and saw extensive, walk around footage of a Lebanese Vanagon ambulance that had been hit by some weapon. All the doors were open...
  • Re: Benefits of a rear sway bar?
    Historical mailing list - Ben T
    Tue, 9 Apr 2002 16:17:41 EDT
    ...anti roll bar available on? >> This was an option on the ambulances only IIRC. The mounts appear to be welded to the swingarms. AADCO...
  • Re: rear stablizer bar
    Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
    Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:05:05 -0700
    ...Does anybody on the list have or know where to buy a rear stabilizer > bar mounting kit for the Vanagon? I believe the ambulance...
  • Vanagon in a Time Capsule?
    Historical mailing list - Harald Rust
    Fri, 14 Mar 2003 17:03:50 -0800
    ...Which model to choose, a vanagon firetruck, raised roof ambulance, doka pickup, or regular transporter? Harald '90 westy __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting...
  • Re: Hiace V8s... look and weep!
    Historical mailing list - Matt Drew
    Mon, 25 May 2009 18:12:31 -0700
    ...2005, the 100-series, MWB. > > I am told that the Hiace ambulance had the Toyota Celsior 1UZ-F engine > standard. > > -- > Andrew Grebneff > Dunedin, New...
  • Re: Other Volkswagens
    Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
    Tue, 9 Aug 2005 11:36:49 +1200
    ...Last year of Barndoors was 1955. "Barndoor" ambulances had the same rear as the post1954 buses! > In 59 they went to the bigger/heavier...
  • Re: Pre67 Sunroof Question
    Historical mailing list - Thom Fitzpatrick
    Tue, 26 Mar 1996 12:10:47 -0800 (PST)
    ...A sunroof was an option on any model except the single/double cabs and probably the ambulance. Yes, you could get a panel with...
  • "special gastank" part number???
    Historical mailing list
    Wed, 29 May 1996 11:46:11 -0500 (EST)
    ...like, carbureted wasserboxer motors, late FI systems Without lamba or cat, stuff to make your van an ambulance or fire engine, all kinds of...
  • Re: December HMN adds
    Historical mailing list - Turbo
    Wed, 27 Nov 1996 19:48:47 -0800
    ...paraphrased > >'54 ambulance, blah, blah, blah Thom or somebody has panned this >one if the one that has surfaced on the net a few...
  • Re: Mog conversions
    Historical mailing list - Al Knoll
    Wed, 25 Aug 1999 11:39:39 -0700
    ...My good friend Juergen has a Mog Ambulance which of course is the perfect camper shell. I've got pix if I can dig...
  • Re: WARNING!! ebay 86 german syncro ambulance/high-top
    Historical mailing list - Terry K.
    Fri, 5 Apr 2002 23:17:29 -0600
    I wrote this guy wiyh the syncro this morning, after seeing al this hub-bub about his non- delivery of veicles, and other sundries...
  • Re: New design for a towable - space age meets Vanagon.
    Historical mailing list - george jannini
    Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:51:27 -0500
    ...Fancy exterior with '40's ambulance accommodations for $20,000? I don't think so. If I was in the rig for a towalong...
  • Re: Pic's of VW Hearse avaialble
    Historical mailing list - Roy Nicholl
    Thu, 27 Jun 1996 19:24:11 -0300
    ...Michael...where most would be excited to post pics of an Ambulance, your ecstatic over a croque morte...:) Bugs & Things & (Hearses?)...Oh, my! NB...
  • Can I replace a Solex 28 PICT with 30 PICT 2?
    Historical mailing list
    Sun, 9 Jun 1996 14:34:21 +0200
    ...I tried tracking down an element used on the earlier ambulances and firetrucks which were converted to 12 volts, but no luck. Now I...
  • Hummer (syncro)
    Historical mailing list - Dan Houg
    Mon, 12 Aug 1996 16:20:21 CST6CDT
    ...get a high-top ambulance model, gut the interior and put some Westy stuff in there. who here has ridden in one that can...
  • Re: Movies
    Historical mailing list - Blaine Bachman
    Fri, 10 Jul 1998 19:53:08 EDT
    ...At one point the train stops, and at the road crossing is a VW ambulance: Bay window cab, Split screen Kombi sides (three square...
  • Friday - Cool stuff in Issue 9 of VW Camper & Commercial
    Historical mailing list - 80 Westy Pokey
    Fri, 6 Dec 2002 09:30:56 -0500
    ...Part 2 of Capetown to Cairo in a Vintage Bus Syncro ambulance brigade How to replace T2 Front Axel Stuff to add to your...
  • Re: Front seat cots
    Historical mailing list - Charles \"Luke\" Lukey
    Wed, 14 Jul 1999 20:45:57 -0700
    ...We rarely used it as an ambulance but often camped in it. It was the normal bluebird-type bus with all the benches facing...
  • Re: TRACTION ABUSE...
    Historical mailing list - Andreas
    Wed, 2 Dec 1998 16:47:52 +0100
    ...But anyway, I too have a responsibility for 6 kids, and having been professionally trained as a high speed ambulance driver (inc much skid...
  • Re: Does a Rear Anti-Sway Bar Exist?
    Historical mailing list - Raimund Feussner
    Mon, 20 Aug 2001 14:13:21 +0200
    ...You only have to > > weld a mounting onto the rear trailer arms, were the 253 511 049 fits into. > > > > Originally, the ambulance versions used...
  • Classic VW Car Show, today
    Historical mailing list - mark drillock
    Sun, 27 Apr 2003 13:49:10 -0700
    ...Pickups, Sundial and Westy Campers, and even a high roof ambulance towing an Eriba Puck camping trailer. Several loafs up to 1972, mostly Westy...
  • bug o' rama report
    Historical mailing list - Thom Fitzpatrick
    Mon, 27 May 1996 06:49:55 -0700
    ...NOS fuel reserve tap, NOS barndoor reflectors, 25 hp oil filler, 2 H4 headlamps, ambulance fan, crank-start crank and nut, a couple very...
  • Re: General engine bolt/nut sizes
    Historical mailing list - Joe Luther
    Mon, 14 Feb 2011 08:11:39 -0500
    ...Even the ones for the ambulance stretcher retaining latches that your bus doesn't have. <smile> You have to register for access to the...
  • Re: 57 samba or 58?
    Historical mailing list - Poor Richard
    Fri, 03 Nov 95 10:38:47 EST
    ...pick-up and double cab pick-up > model 27 is the ambulance > model 28 is the walk through front seat Microbus > Not to be...
  • Re: '76 Westy in Ohio
    Historical mailing list
    Wed, 17 Mar 2004 22:40:48 EST
    ...all orig and had the westy tent, ambulance fans, and all kinds of other options on it. it was a nice van and i...
  • battery isolator
    Historical mailing list - patrick
    Fri, 7 May 2004 16:10:02 -0500
    ...I took this off an ambulance that had an engine fire but all stuff in the back were fine. on the side of the...
  • Re: engine size
    Historical mailing list - Jason Orr
    Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:27:20 -0400
    ...If front wheel drives really are supposed to be better, then why arent there ambulances and fire trucks with this setup? Just a thought...
  • Re: This is why I drive a Vanagon
    Historical mailing list - EMZ
    Mon, 6 Apr 1998 12:42:21 -0400
    ...So they normally bet the ambulance the to accident. This was no excception. The police were 5 cars back on the adjacent road, and...
  • 3 bolts aint enough!
    Historical mailing list - brady
    Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:31:54 -0700
    ...Traffic is a mess, ambulance, fire and police are trying to get through to the seen. I'm pissed cause the Volvo and bicycle...