Hi Stan and other Air-cooled experts,

I bought a pristine '89 Westy about a year ago and absolutely love it.
My girlfriend and I put about 20k km on it on a 2 month trip immediately
after we bought it without any mechanical difficulties - since then, a
clutch job, a coolant tank and a couple smaller repairs.

Last month my parents came to Vancouver for a visit and borrowed the
Westy for a week to tour around Vancouver Island.  They've been looking
at conversion vans and small RVs but hadn�t considered a Westy because
where they live, southern Ontario, they use lots of salt on the roads in
the winter and there aren�t many Westy survivors.  Anyway, they loved my
van and my Dad was really interested in learning about the 80-83
Westies.  He's always worked on his own cars, trucks, tractors, boats,
etc, so he really liked the idea of the simplicity of the air-cooled
Vanagon Westys.

All that said, I've been watching the classified ads here in Vancouver
and this week I see two 1980 Westys that I am planning to go look at.
Other than driving a buddy's '78 Westy a few times, I have no experience
with the air-cooled vans.  What should I be looking for on these
things??

~Eric~
'89 Westy
Vancouver, BC

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