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Subject:Re: Offer
From:t
Date:Sat, 7 Oct 2000 21:31:53 -0700

Hmmmm... I have a copy and while interes5ting, it is hard to traanslate
and the info is definately biased towards German systems available. I
don't think scanning a couple hundred pages to a web site is the way to
go. You can find one of the list mambers (Steve Lashley) selling the
book if interested.

tim o'brien

Jason Gorfine wrote:
>
> about a month or two ago, there was a sort of "how to convert your passenger
> Vanagon into a Westfalia manual" in German on ebay.  i'd intended to bid but
> forgot.  i didn't track the auction and have no idea who, if anyone, won the
> auction.
>
> if the new owner of this manual is a list member or anyone here knows
> him/her, i'd appreciate it i could be put in contact with them.
>
> i'd like to borrow the manual, scan it, and make a complete, high quality
> PDF available to the members of the list.  i would post it on my webspace,
> so there'd be no need to request it, or we could just hand it over to the
> administrator of vanagon.com.
>
> i would of course be willing to give some sort collateral (a money order
> security deposit, or possibly my 18 year-old Bentley manual 'though it MUST
> be returned', etc.) beforehand so the lender could have a some piece of
> mind.
>
> i'm a multimedia specialist, and i have access to amazingly high quality
> scanners.  i could have it completed and posted within a day.
>
> eventually i was hoping maybe to get a old friend of mine who's fluent in
> German to translate it, but first things first.
>
> thanks,
> jason

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