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  • Re: Bus Capitol of the World (fwd)
    Historical mailing list - Gerald Skerbitz
    Tue, 18 Apr 1995 07:29:18 -0500 (CDT)
    ...vans. They seem to use them for all their services. ie. ambulance, fire, police etc.. The same happens in Algeria. I believe that the...
  • Re: Westy Bummer on I-40
    Historical mailing list - T.P. Stephens
    Sun, 21 Nov 1999 16:44:10 -0800
    ...RTP, NC. >It didn't appear that anyone was hurt, (no ambulances, and relatively minor >crash damage). >It was a chocolate brown Westy in...
  • Re: Has anyone added a rear swaybar to their westy?
    Historical mailing list - Ben T
    Wed, 28 Nov 2001 20:22:28 EST
    ...Apparently, there is a rear anti-swaybar available for the T3 (Vanagon style body) ambulances. It was confirmed in ETKA. My apologies to the...
  • Re: Very First Domed Skylight
    Historical mailing list - TJ Hannink
    Mon, 2 Dec 2002 13:31:12 -0800
    ...Get a red cover, put a rotating spot inside and play fire truck/ambulance. Get an amber cover, put a strobe inside and make...
  • WARNING!! ebay 86 german syncro ambulance/high-top
    Historical mailing list - Tyler Trotman
    Fri, 5 Apr 2002 09:59:41 EST
    vladimier_k is a fraud his real name is Michael Papp or at least that's the name on a bank account he uses...
  • Re: busses in Chile
    Historical mailing list
    Tue, 29 Nov 94 11:05:00 EST
    ...So if anyone has one, just let me know... :) They also had (that I remember) an ambulance, crane-truck, hearse, refrigerated van, and some...
  • Re: Mexico/Vanagon report-Guadalajara/Puerto Vallarta
    Historical mailing list - Peter Cassidy
    Mon, 8 Jan 2001 12:54:26 +0000
    ...My favourite pic is the Nigerian Type-2 ambulance which ran into a camel & was later converted to a camper! >Simon Glen, Toowoomba, Australia...
  • Dictionary addition, another one
    Historical mailing list - Thom Fitzpatrick
    Wed, 4 Jan 1995 16:15:03 -0800 (PST)
    ...also did not have the ventilation eyebrow above the windshield/windscreen. AMBULANCE: Special model of the bus, based on the Standard bus, first available...
  • Re: Can I replace a Solex 28 PICT with 30 PICT 2?
    Historical mailing list
    Mon, 10 Jun 1996 02:25:50 -0400
    ...I tried tracking down an element used on the earlier ambulances and firetrucks which were converted to 12 volts, but no luck. Now I...
  • Re: sliding rear window for transporter pickup??(single/doublecab)
    Historical mailing list - Raimund Feussner
    Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:09:07 +0100
    ...The german Vanagon ambulance versions had a sliding window behind the drivers� seats, but this one doesn�t fit into the doublecab/single cab...
  • Re: Vanagon Plastic Model question
    Historical mailing list - J Stewart
    Fri, 30 Dec 2011 23:25:19 +0000
    ...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: Hiace V8s... look and weep!
    Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
    Mon, 25 May 2009 18:38:03 -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: Rude Comments about Vanagons on the Web
    Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
    Mon, 17 May 1999 19:21:03 -0700
    ...sounds like a how-to for ambulance chasers: buy the wreck, get lots of photos (how to stand so your photos are nice and...
  • Re: very low mileage syncro hightop ambulance for sale
    Historical mailing list - David Bjorkman
    Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:26:40 -0500
    ...very low mileage <SPAN class=misspelled>syncro</SPAN> <SPAN class=misspelled>hightop</SPAN> ambulance for sale<BR><BR>only 8,000 <SPAN class=misspelled...
  • Re: 4wd Breadloaves
    Historical mailing list - Andy Erskine
    Wed, 20 Sep 95 10:11:10 bst
    ...It used to be an ambulance and he used it as a camper on climbing trips. It had no overhang front or rear, about...
  • Re: 57 samba or 58?
    Historical mailing list
    Fri, 3 Nov 1995 13:03:07 -0500
    ...pick-up and double cab pick-up > model 27 is the ambulance > model 28 is the walk through front seat Microbus > AND rapalmer@unity...
  • Re: Sunroof Vans on Craigslist (California) today
    Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
    Tue, 8 Mar 2011 19:06:47 -0800
    ...Or maybe Vanagon Ambulance? *http://tinyurl.com/tatervan* BenT On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Michael Sullivan <sandwichhead@gmail.com>wrote...
  • Re: Friday nvc: Sprinters
    Historical mailing list - Karl Mullendore
    Sat, 27 Aug 2016 02:59:49 -0400
    ...I have another $4000 in a complete 4x4 drivetrain from a European Sprinter ambulance. Compared to a Vanagon Syncro (I still have two), it...
  • Accident--Things to look for in repair...
    Historical mailing list - Kriss De Jong
    Sun, 13 Jul 2003 02:02:19 -0700
    ...I did get taken out on a backboard into an ambulance, but nothing was broken when they did the x-rays...anyway. We have...
  • Barndoor Rear Hatch (was VW Bus Web Page Update)
    Historical mailing list - David Easterwood
    Fri, 29 Mar 1996 16:04:32 -0500
    ...20-117 901 So there were not rear hatches "officially" available for barndoor deluxes, only panels, microbuses, kombis, and ambulances. > I made some minor...
  • Re: How did older vans carry wheelchairs?
    Historical mailing list - Thom Fitzpatrick
    Thu, 23 May 1996 16:51:16 -0700 (PDT)
    ...This is one situation where a lowered bus would make sense... (rise/run) The ambulances had special floor attachements for holding jump seats to...
  • Re: Euro headlight.
    Historical mailing list
    Fri, 31 Jan 1997 15:54:43 +0200
    ...I saw these on all the police and ambulance Vans >>>as well as regular Vans. What were these lights, and are they available as...
  • RE : All kinds of VW Buses
    Historical mailing list - Stephen Overmyer
    Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:22:19 +1000
    ...The T5 is also seen commonly as an Ambulance (or Krankenwagen and I've now started to see Police T5s. BTW, I saw my...
  • Re: Haynes 1982-1990 wbx manual
    Historical mailing list - Peter Cassidy
    Tue, 2 May 2000 12:33:49 +0100
    ...the Order of Malta - all set up with VW factory option ambulance kit ... Pete C -- Peter Cassidy, pcassidy@apple.com Sr. Test Dev. Engineer...
  • Re: WARNING!! ebay 86 german syncro ambulance/high-top
    Historical mailing list - phil stanhope
    Fri, 5 Apr 2002 21:22:38 -0800
    Didnt you read the earlier horror story posts on this Guy? if just TWO people from the list get screwed buy a flake its...
  • Re: bus sighting...poor treatment in the movies?
    Historical mailing list - Wil Haslup
    Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:18:34 -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: engine size
    Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
    Fri, 28 Oct 2011 05:46:21 -0700
    ...If > front wheel drives really are supposed to be better, then why arent there > ambulances and fire trucks with this setup? Just a thought...
  • sway bar size bigger on Westy?
    Historical mailing list - Christopher Berchin
    Mon, 13 May 2002 06:52:08 -0400
    ...The title was "Lots of sta-bar info - long." Assuming your vans are US models that aren't ambulances, you won't find any...
  • old bus and beetle parts for sale
    Historical mailing list
    Wed, 27 Mar 1996 12:44:11 -0500
    ...beetle) radio block of plate (1950-67 bus - i think) Hella Ambulance spotlight p/n 211 941 205A white NOS backup light switch for...
  • syncro parts catalogue
    Historical mailing list - Bj�rn Ratjen
    Fri, 26 Nov 1999 17:34:52 -0800
    ...The catalogues contain exploded drawings of all Syncro Vanagon parts including Diesel, European and ambulance accessories, Westfalia options etc. They do not include part...
  • Re: Cool modified DOKA
    Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
    Tue, 1 Sep 2009 16:00:14 -0700
    ...They look like the Hella lights used on VW T1 & T2 ambulances. This was a formerly a water company truck so was likely not...
  • Re: Sunroof Vans on Craigslist (California) today
    Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
    Tue, 8 Mar 2011 19:33:55 -0800
    ...Or maybe Vanagon Ambulance? > > *http://tinyurl.com/tatervan* > > > BenT > > On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Michael Sullivan <sandwichhead@gmail.com > >wrote...
  • Re: 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 - MICHAEL H
    Mon, 24 Dec 2012 07:20:15 -0800
    ...com/2012/12/20/sorta-fast-response-team-1987-vw-vanagon-ambulance/ -- roger w From Proverbs: Under three things the earth trembles, under four...
  • Bentley manual for '63-'67 busses
    Historical mailing list
    Wed, 15 May 1996 07:35:20 +0200
    ...By he way, this manual is in two volumes with great sections on how to install all the ambulance accessories, putting is the sun...
  • Re: rear anti-sway bar - Info and Pictures
    Historical mailing list - Ed McLean
    Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:13:09 -0400
    ...Some Type 2 vehicles (1988 German Ambulance, for instance) came with 19mm rear sway bars in addition to front sway bars. The actual bar...
  • Re: Never seen one of those!
    Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
    Wed, 11 Oct 95 07:41:38 CDT
    ...they were used for ambulances and backery trucks and such. i've only seen them in some of the books about buses, and one...
  • German First aid kit for vanagon
    Historical mailing list - harald_nancy
    Sat, 21 Jul 2001 13:10:43 -0700
    ...It's only designed for assistance until the ambulance arrives, for the first half hour or so. People in Germany are required to assist...
  • Re: HEY!!
    Historical mailing list - Steve Johnson
    Fri, 9 Sep 94 9:24:17 PDT
    ...give undo credit to that Ric East-Coast-Attorney-Caffeine-Addicted-Ambulance-Chasing- Psycho-Golen! ;) Well, at least he has good taste in cars...
  • Re: Bad Vanagon News...
    Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
    Mon, 5 Nov 2001 22:26:19 +1200
    >The other driver was in an early 80s Caviler, >unfortunately they were taken by ambulance to the hospital, however she >didn't look too...
  • Vanagon trivia
    Historical mailing list - mdrillock
    Sat, 9 Aug 2008 17:51:06 -0700
    ...The VW factory called them all T3 models, including pickups and special versions like fire trucks and ambulances More of them were built with...
  • Re: Crazy VW / was: Coolant Movement Problems
    Historical mailing list - John Bange
    Fri, 24 Jun 2005 21:27:14 -0700
    ...super loud multi-tone musical horns, auxiliary roof mounted turn signals, ambulance stretcher-chairs, and headlight washers. I guess maybe most people have the...
  • Re: Cardiac Event
    Historical mailing list - Philip Zimmerman
    Tue, 1 Apr 2008 07:56:42 -0700
    ...The rest is history. > Wow John, Vanagons make really, really, really great Ambulances! > I too, had a MI (myocardial infarction) last October, following a...
  • Re: T3 Syncro with original 39,000 km !!!
    Historical mailing list - David Marshall
    Fri, 3 Sep 2004 17:47:00 -0700
    Thanks for thinking of me - not really interested in an ambulance though. Could turn into a good camper though! :-) David Marshall Fast Forward Automotive...
  • Re: Dormobile talk and quids
    Historical mailing list
    5 Dec 94 24:42
    ...It would be better to ship a whole bus over, then you'd get some spares too! >BTW what would an Ambulance Spotlight/mirror...
  • VW Interest
    Historical mailing list
    Wed, 22 Feb 1995 16:21:43 -0600
    ...It also showed the bus as an ambulance and the Swiss family Robinson taking a drive in the Rhineland. (I counted 5 adults and...
  • Re: Dormobile talk
    Historical mailing list
    Fri, 2 Dec 1994 10:21:52 -0500
    ...Is a quid worth the same as a pound or what? BTW what would an Ambulance Spotlight/mirror go for in the UK?I...
  • State Your Age / addicted to VW
    Historical mailing list - Wolfgang Ziegler
    Tue, 11 May 2004 21:44:53 -0400
    ...My wife and I later owned a converted '76 ambulance as a camper - took us all over France. Then a 79 Vanagon which we...
  • Re: New design for a towable - space age meets Vanagon.
    Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
    Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:20:06 -0600
    ...Fancy > exterior with '40's ambulance accommodations for $20,000? I don't > think so. > > If I was in the rig for a towalong...
  • Frydaye Statz! ;) well ... of a sort.
    Historical mailing list - joel walker
    Fri, 2 Feb 2007 07:27:07 -0600
    ...not Westfalia) 1.1 percent Double-cab Pickup 0.5 percent Single-cab Pickup 0.3 percent Ambulance and the locations are the same...
  • Re: the vw crafter IS the sprinter. same vehicle.. different trim.
    Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
    Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:10:34 +1300
    ...Mind, most Sprinters here are cab/chassis (eg ambulances)... the LT is far more common as a unitary van. Hmmm... if there's a...
  • Re: battery isolator
    Historical mailing list - Laurence Smith
    Fri, 7 May 2004 19:42:44 -0400
    ...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: Can I replace a Solex 28 PICT with 30 PICT 2?
    Historical mailing list - Joseph J Helwig
    Sun, 9 Jun 1996 09:54:42 -0600
    ...I tried tracking down an element used on the earlier ambulances >and firetrucks which were converted to 12 volts, but no luck. Now I...
  • Rear anti-roll bar installed!
    Historical mailing list - Gary Stearns
    Fri, 31 May 2002 09:12:21 -0400
    A month or more back I saw a post saying that the rear anti-roll bar as installed on ambulance and other heavy models...
  • Re: Vanagon crash safety/Projectzwo bull bars
    Historical mailing list - Filcoff, David M.
    Mon, 8 Apr 2002 13:24:24 -0500
    ...I walked away, the other driver ended up in an ambulance because she wasn't wearing her seatbelt. I have since ordered a bull...
  • Re: Diesel Ex German Military radio van
    Historical mailing list - Roy Nicholl
    Sun, 22 Feb 2015 13:09:11 -0400
    ...I know of both a retired firetruck and ambulance that have been for sale for a year or more each ... at asking prices which...
  • Westy Bummer on I-40
    Historical mailing list - Bulley
    Sun, 21 Nov 1999 19:06:36 -0500
    ...It didn't appear that anyone was hurt, (no ambulances, and relatively minor crash damage). We got to the scene pretty late after the...
  • Re: Hummer (syncro)
    Historical mailing list
    Mon, 12 Aug 1996 21:34:04 -0400
    ...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: 3 bolts aint enough!
    Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
    Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:16:46 -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...
  • Re: Vanagon in a Time Capsule?
    Historical mailing list - Pablo Bonilla
    Fri, 14 Mar 2003 19:28:28 -0600
    ...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: Vanagon trivia
    Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
    Sat, 9 Aug 2008 21:11:51 -0400
    ...T3 models, including pickups and > special > versions like fire trucks and ambulances > > More of them were built with 1.6 turbo diesel engines than...