Hey Alain

Any chance you still have an address for that Israeli dude in Fulham?  I've
contemplated shipping my camper to Europe, but the Aussie buy-sell method
you mention sounds like it could be fairly economical.  Add in the benefit
of cruising the continent w/RHD, sounds fun(maybe dangerous;-)

Aloha
Bryan
'85 ASI Riviera  "Dulcinea del Tortuga"
'98 Klein Pulse Pro hardtail
blown out flip-flops

Alain Pierre Hovasse wrote:

>Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 20:37:58 -0400
>
>That reminds me: I recently moved from London England, where I had another
>vanagon, not a westy but an amazing conversion nevertheless. Before I
>bought
>it privately, I did some research and found this israeli dude in Fulham who
>bought and sold vw campers of all kinds. Must have had 20/30 there. I
>talked
>with him and his wife for about an hour getting all kinds of good info.
>They
>didn't really have what I wanted at the time (hard to believe) but I kept
>in
>touch with them from time to time as I looked at various models in the buy
>and sell ads. He mostly bought and sold from traveling Australians, who buy
>a camper in London, do a grand tour of Europe (always with a surf board or
>two) for extended periods of time and then return, sometime to sell the
>camper back to this same guy. He told me he loved those campers and
>sometimes hated to sell them. In fact at that time, the British pound was
>going through the roof and Aussies were staying away in droves.
>
>My vw was a converted passenger van and had sliding doors on each side. It
>had one of those high roofs and swayed a bit in high winds. The inside
>however, was totally totally amazing. Some perfectionist had built
>cabinets,
>sink and shelves and had the inside material all color coordinated in some
>kind of scottish pattern. Sounds odd but it was very very nice. The
>woodwork
>was excellent.
>
>Ended up driving it all over France several times and even all the way to
>Prague and back one summer. Man it was a good machine. It was dubbed The
>Big
>Pig: I had commented upon the very first drive that it handled like a pig
>(it was an 86 with no power steering) and my young daughter made the
>connection that it was a pig, and a pig it stayed.
>
>Our new one here in Toronto is an 87 Westy, white, more standardized
>version. Lovely machine, itching to take it south.
>
>Enough from me
>
>Alain Pierre
>on 6/11/00 2:26 PM, Ty Graham at tyg@OZ.NET wrote:
>
> > Having discovered Tom Meyer of Cycoactive is my neighbor, I am
>approaching a
> > state of Vanagon bliss.  More Vanagons to look at, work on, and talk
>about
> > than I can almost handle.
> >
> > In my neighborhood, I could now start a "street of dreams" tour.
> >
> > My three
> > Syncro Westy with max audio and video
> > Doublecab with PZwo, OME and Eurospec mucking (_still_ not hot starting.
> > thank you very much)
> > Carat with ARB refer, lights,  soon SA grille
> >
> > Tom's Westy one block away
> > Subaru conversion
> > custom hitch and rack
> > cool, momentary sink switch install
> > ...
> >
> > Steve H's ~5 blocks away
> > 1 or more doublecabs -- almost always one for sale
> > 1 singlecab
> > sano 90 multivan
> >
> > Numerous other stock or practically stock Vanagons within walking
>distance.
> >
> > To tie all this back to the subject line; Curt Cobain's house is just a
>few
> > blocks away also.
> >
> > Ty

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