>From: Greg Potts

>Hi Volks,

>It's home now...  After a year of lurking on the list we now have a
>waterboxer in the family, to go along with three Baywindow buses and
>two aircooled Vanagons.

>Here are the pics:
>http://www.pottsfamily.ca/Vanagon/83WaterBoxer/

>It's a bit on the rough side but a LOT better than we had been
>expecting for the price. Dad is the third owner. It needs a thorough
>cleaning and new canvas; but the first priority will be to find out
>what went wrong to make the PO decide to park it four years ago. We
>have extensive maintenance records from the original owner (who brought
>it east from CA in 1997), but the P.O. in Buffalo was not nearly so
>nice to it. We're hoping it's something simple, like a vacuum leak or a
>fuel filter. (We should be so lucky.)

>I'll post more about it once I've had a chance to see it in person. So
>far all I've seen is the pics above.

Cool Greg! I like the Parking Lot Rash pic. Looks like mine, maybe a touch
more extensive, but mine is not a Westy ;(.

Good Luck,

Michael Knight
'77 Westy Deluxe, "el Verde"
'85 Vanagon GL, nameless