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• Re: Wanted: front child cot/hammock
  Historical mailing list - Tom Buese
  Tue, 7 May 2013 15:04:50 -0400
  ...you are seeking a child cot for a splitty. > > Dave B. > > > On 05/07/13, Aaron**robinson.lists@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > > Hello all. > > Just...
• Re: vanagon chess set
  Historical mailing list - craig cowan
  Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:11:08 -0500
  The king is a 21 window splitty, and i'd say a Ghia makes a nice queen, though maybe a Type 4 wagen (the...
• Re: By name and culturally we Vanagon owners are..... (Frydaye)
  Historical mailing list - Michael Sullivan
  Fri, 9 Oct 2009 16:10:59 -0500
  ...cause cancer > > > > Nature lovers > > > > Latent Ricers > > > > Ricers with a family > > > > Survivalists > > > > Splitty/Bay graduates > > > > Masochists > > > > Familial sadists > > > > Inner Krauts > > > > Excellent lovers > > > > Annoying > > > > Optimistic > > > > Relentless...
• Re: Hello everyone.
  Historical mailing list - No Quarter
  Sun, 3 Mar 1996 21:39:12 -0600 (CST)
  ...I have not seen a bus on the roads here in a couple years...specially a splitty! ______________ Nebraska: The Good Life-"I guess that...
• Re: [T2] Friday Topic-horn sound
  Historical mailing list - Nathaniel Poole
  Sat, 9 Dec 2006 11:34:27 -0800
  ...Austin mounted big diesel truck airhorns on top of > his old splitty bus and powered them with an air tank. He called them "Horns...
• This day has been good to me, too!
  Historical mailing list - andrewbell
  Tue, 25 Dec 2001 22:30:14 -0600
  ...handsome > 1/25th scale die-cast model of a sun-roof Splitty. It's so cool! > > Our day is perfect, and I hope yours...
• Car-Talk and AOL slams the VW bus again..."worst car of the millennium"
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 8 Apr 2002 03:54:12 EDT
  ...amidst the pic of a hippied out mid 60's splitty. this is NPR's "Car -Talk" radio show's "worst car of the...
• Re: Crumbling Flue Vent Cover
  Historical mailing list - Keith Ovregaard
  Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:41:43 -0700
  ...the family 1984 Westy "Brownie" 1980 PU diesel 1978 Rabbit diesel 1979 Rabbit gasser 1963? 23 window Splitty 1965 Bus 1969 Bus 1959 Bug
• Re: Auto show - kinda Westy like camper
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Sun, 18 Feb 2018 16:16:09 -0800
  ...Van seems about the same size as the old type II splitty. Looked kind of neat anyway. Happy travels. > Spencer > > https://www.reconcampers.com/
• Re: can anyone in CT helicoil ?
  Historical mailing list - EMZ
  Wed, 11 Jun 2003 22:04:16 -0400
  ...in CT know how to do this and if so could you help me out? > thanx a bunch, > Tracy > 85' GL "Ripple" > 65' Splitty >
• Re: Better Mileage Anyone? (without going ala Lilley)
  Historical mailing list - Matthew Libby & Denise DeWolfe
  Sun, 27 Aug 2000 18:03:55 -0500
  a bug is a Type 1 a bus is a Type 2 (T1=splitty, T2=loaf, T3=brick, T4=Eurovan) my .02 Matt CHRIS...
• Re: VW Van turns 60.
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Fri, 4 Jun 2010 13:32:12 -0700
  ...What a fine old splitty that one was. Got a lot of years out of it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Grisanti" <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM...
• Vanagon sighting (Rare in my area)
  Historical mailing list - Paul M. Hillbish
  Sun, 15 Apr 2001 03:20:17 EDT
  ...79 Bus on one side, and a beautiful blue and white splitty on the other. I had my camera with me, so I took...
• Re: Splitty love story NVC
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Wed, 31 Jul 2002 00:19:12 EDT
  In a message dated 7/30/02 10:09:52 PM, wilden1@JUNO.COM writes: >I'm certainly glad that it is you and...
• Re: can anyone in CT helicoil ?
  Historical mailing list - George Wietor
  Wed, 11 Jun 2003 16:32:26 -0400
  ...in CT know how to do this and if so could you help me out? thanx a bunch, Tracy 85' GL "Ripple" 65' Splitty
• Burned out Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Keith Ovregaard
  Fri, 2 Feb 2007 20:19:31 -0800
  ...90 Westy Syncro "VikingWagen" Past VeeDubs in the family 1984 Westy "Brownie" 1980 PU diesel 1979 Rabbit 1963? 23 window Splitty 1965 Bus 1969...
• Re: Vanagon Virtues and Type 2 contrasts( was ahhh..
  Historical mailing list - Imua Camper Company
  Tue, 30 Jul 2002 13:54:40 -1000
  ...I'm a splitty guy at heart and will have one again as soon as I can (like the 56 I just saw for...
• Re: Friday: Is it a Van or what?
  Historical mailing list - Matt Thyer
  Mon, 7 Feb 2011 07:55:04 -0800
  ...T1 = Splitty T2 = Breadloaf T3 = Breadbox T4/T5 = Out of Class completely MT -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com...
• Re: Is there anyone under 60 on this list???? WAS:Wife is done with Vanagon a...
  Historical mailing list - Jason Ellsmere
  Wed, 10 Jul 2013 13:44:18 -0400
  ...where I caught the bug (no pun) but have been a splitty fan for 20 years and now a Vanagon owner. Hopefully it will...
• SSVC back ..live 'n' kicking
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 19 Mar 96 18:25:02
  Hello again all from Dave on behalf of Splitty lovers in Britain (oops, nearly said England..BAD mistake). Mega - pro show here last weekend...
• Re: Is there anyone under 60 on this list????
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Mon, 1 Jul 2013 09:39:42 -0700
  ...And at another event when I asked the two late teen aged boys, working on the Splitty they had arrived in, what was the...
• Re: Vanagon Cover
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Sat, 18 Aug 2007 20:50:44 -0400
  ...the family > 1984 Westy "Brownie" > 1980 PU diesel > 1978 Rabbit diesel > 1979 Rabbit gasser > 1963? 23 window Splitty > 1965 Bus > 1969 Bus > 1959 Bug
• Re: Favorite stickers
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Sat, 28 Dec 2019 22:18:54 -0500
  ...On Tom Buese’s bus is one of my favorites, >> >> A Splitty with a hippy Jesus driving >> >> Under it says something like >> >> What Would...
• Re: Vanagon 1: Avalanche 0
  Historical mailing list - Karl G Vochatzer/AMR
  24 Jan 97 10:50:17
  ...holding the Pinto by climbing over the fence aided by a splitty used as a ladder. >>I saw a (Dove?-) Blue Vanagon with round...
• Re: Mirror, mirror on the wall...
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Mon, 30 Aug 1999 21:39:12 -0400
  ...When he came back, the other splitty was gone. So were various lenses and other minor bits off of his bus that the other...
• Sportsmobile
  Historical mailing list - BJ Feddish
  Wed, 2 Apr 2008 10:30:26 -0400
  They've been around awhile; they even have a splitty camper on their homepage at http://www.sportsmobile.com/ . I have a picture of...
• RE:Splitty Ads
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 7 Jan 92 18:53:00
  Enjoyed reading about some of the ads. Here's a few of my faves: Looking down on top of Beetle next to 23 window...
• Re: vote for new microbus
  Historical mailing list - Ben T
  Fri, 21 Sep 2001 14:59:14 EDT
  ...A few years ago someone sent a concept sketch to Road & Track of the front of a "New Beetle" grafted onto a Splitty - it...
• Re: vans
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Thu, 21 Dec 2006 20:21:01 -0500
  Correcting a Splitty..Boy, someone would sure have their work cut out putting my old 57 S-african back into 'factory' condition...If it...
• Re: Fw: Re: [VANAGON] vanagon chess set
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:53:28 -0800
  ...a Eurovan? > > after all, it IS a "different gender" from the splitty/bay/vanagon > > buses ... that is, its engine is in the front. ;) > > > > > King...
• Small World - no hiding place!
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 12 Apr 96 11:30:53
  ...to be seen with us...! It seems wherever you go intrepid Splitty spotters see you even when in disguise and without your van! -- **dace...
• Re: Dash mounts for fancy gadgets?
  Historical mailing list - jimt
  Mon, 3 Jan 2005 06:47:57 -0700
  ...In fact, > three friends this weekend went on an off-road foray with a splitty, a bay, > and a Vanagon and all three > claim...
• Re: More Conversion engine stuff.
  Historical mailing list - Matt Roberds
  Fri, 4 May 2007 18:52:19 -0500
  ...simple to a Vanagon transmission to make it go the other way - like flipping the ring gear around back in splitty days. Matt Roberds
• on Dormobiles
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 23 Jun 1996 22:32:53 -0400
  ...The complete Dormobile conversion is rare -- apparently only 4 splitty ones in the U.K. I've never seen another one. Unfortunately mine has...
• Re: Finding women like this (was Big Valves for me?)
  Historical mailing list - Marc Perdue
  Fri, 25 Apr 2003 13:37:01 -0400
  ...I own an 85' restored it practically myself, am lookin for a 70's bay, and 60's splitty, and am going to school...
• Re: By name and culturally we Vanagon owners are..... (Frydaye)
  Historical mailing list - joel walker
  Fri, 9 Oct 2009 15:35:43 -0500
  ...cause cancer; Nature lovers; Latent Ricers; Ricers with a family; Survivalists; Splitty/Bay graduates; Masochists; Familial sadists; Inner Krauts; Excellent lovers; Annoying; Optimistic; Relentless...
• Re: Splitty love story NVC
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Tue, 30 Jul 2002 22:49:24 -0400
  On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Stan Wilder wrote: > I'm certainly glad that it is you and not me with that fleet of money...
• Re: Vanagons at the Tour de France
  Historical mailing list - Joel Cort
  Wed, 14 Jul 2010 06:16:39 -0700
  ...turns.� I did not see this but Casey the photographer did - Splitty Beer truck:�http://bit.ly/TdFBeerBus1� (thanks Arne) Cheers, Joel � � ________________________________ From: Jeffrey...
• Re: Clamshell toolbox
  Historical mailing list - Ralph Meyermann
  Wed, 10 Jan 2018 17:07:39 -0600
  ...Clamshell toolbox > > >> > > >> Compared to my 64 VW Splitty and my motorcycle, my Westfalia is a > > safety haven. Also, I don’t go over 90. > > >
• Re: Insurance
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Tue, 9 May 2017 18:19:16 -0400
  ...They will pay book for both my Westy and my 64 Splitty. The other question is what will the driver's at fault insurance...
• Re: Favorite stickers
  Historical mailing list - Tom Buese
  Sat, 28 Dec 2019 22:21:22 -0500
  ...On Tom Buese’s bus is one of my favorites, >>> >>> A Splitty with a hippy Jesus driving >>> >>> Under it says something like >>> >>> What Would...
• Re: Window Tint Asthetics
  Historical mailing list - Keith Ovregaard
  Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:25:53 -0800
  ...90 Westy Syncro "VikingWagen" Past VeeDubs in the family 1980 PU diesel 1979 Rabbit 1963? 23 window Splitty 1965 Bus 1969 Bus 1959 Bug
• Re: 85' won't start :-( any clues??
  Historical mailing list - Doug Alcock
  Mon, 25 Aug 2003 11:14:45 -0400
  ...trying >to start......... > >please help >thanx, >Tracy >85' GL "Ripple" >65' Splitty It's worth crawling under the van and banging the starter with...
• Re: Vanagon/Westy theme board games? Cards?
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:53:43 -0800
  ...While not specifically about Vanagons, > it does have a picture of an old splitty in an armadillo suit... > http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/191082...
• Re: Help westfalia history & pics needed
  Historical mailing list - Tony Peet
  Mon, 8 Nov 1999 20:53:17 PST
  ...She needs info on the begining >1949?-1967 (splitty) 1968-1979 (baywindow) and the euro van 1993. > >Any and all help would be greatly...
• Re: Finding women like this (was Big Valves for me?)
  Historical mailing list - James Walldow
  Fri, 25 Apr 2003 13:04:18 -0800
  ...I own an 85' restored it practically myself, am lookin for a 70's bay, and 60's splitty, and am going to school...
• Is there any such thing as a diesel window van in the US?
  Historical mailing list - Sam Scholten
  Fri, 24 Jul 1998 10:23:28 -0700
  ...know, it's hard enough to find a panel loaf or splitty (except in Cali). I saw one in Hot VW's done by...
• Re: Driving & camping in Mexico
  Historical mailing list - Rennie Wible
  Fri, 1 Sep 2000 19:36:23 -0700
  ...My roof rack holds 2 splitty 10 gallon gas tanks (I recommend at least 5 gallons to carrly with you, full at all times...
• Re: can anyone in CT helicoil ?
  Historical mailing list - Matthew Pollard
  Wed, 11 Jun 2003 13:27:27 -0700
  ...in CT know how to do this and if so could you > help me out? > thanx a bunch, > Tracy > 85' GL "Ripple" > 65' Splitty
• Re: Buses by the Depot 2008
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Tue, 7 Oct 2008 05:57:21 EDT
  ...Maintenance folks, PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE ! Most of these Vanagons are now close to 25 years old and the bays and splittys are well into 30...
• Waved by Jetta 3, and add campaigns
  Historical mailing list - John Anderson
  Fri, 6 Oct 95 17:06:59 EDT
  ...suddenly here BEEP BEEP and a couple hippies in a "cherry" splitty crest the hill and blow past the Caravan (admittedly not a great...
• Re: no spark (after timing/dwell checked?)
  Historical mailing list - jon
  Sat, 15 Jul 2006 17:16:19 -0700
  ...is from memory, and I was just out working on our Splitty (which does have a dist, but predates Vanagon by about 13 years...
• Re: Dormobile Tops & other junkyard finds
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 3 Apr 1996 03:06:05 -0500
  ...All splitty sunroof buses had them, and dormobiles were built on sunroof combi bodies. I popped it up and there were no tears in...
• Re: CCC's lost & found
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 23 Sep 1996 14:26:12 -0700
  ...Our only returned wave was from a splitty camper going into Yosemite Valley. I guess the others were all worn out from waving at...
• Re: 85 - Bucking and misfiring
  Historical mailing list - WVVW
  Fri, 22 Aug 2003 10:25:50 -0400
  ...t difficult to do..... > >good luck, >Tracy >85' GL "Ripple" >65' Splitty __________________________________________________________________ McAfee VirusScan Online from the Netscape Network. Comprehensive protection for your entire...
• Type IV oil in bellhousing :(
  Historical mailing list - Wouter de Waal
  Mon, 13 Feb 1995 15:49:02 +0200 (SAT)
  ...Regards Wouter de Waal wrm@aztec.co.za '72 Puma '6x Splitty Wannabus PS .za = South Africa. Nice place. Come visit sometime.
• fuel system problems?
  Historical mailing list - Tracy Bonin
  Tue, 6 May 2003 06:02:51 -0700
  ...cleaner in there and see how it does? Maybe change the filter too........please let me know.thanx,Tracy85' GL "Ripple"soon 65' Splitty
• Tim's Aircooled Westy Giveaway
  Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
  Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:54:05 -0700
  ...more hassle to pass smog. >> >> not as cute as a shortened splitty for promotional vehicle though... >> >> see http://www.loaflovetour.com/ >> > > > > -- > Where ever you...
• Re: Favorite stickers
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 30 Dec 2019 23:48:10 +0000
  ...On Tom Buese’s bus is one of my favorites, >> >> A Splitty with a hippy Jesus driving >> >> Under it says something like >> >> What Would...
• battery holder thing
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Mon, 30 Jul 2018 19:30:27 -0400
  ...original Vanagon one, but was a little tempted to use the old Bay or splitty one just for fun! Eric Caron 85 GL Auto