i met a foursome driving a western road trips van in aspen.  my wife and
i were having lunch in ours, and these folks asked us if "we knew
anything about these vans".  apparently their ecu was buzzing, all
through the night with the van off.  it was an 87-88 westfalia.  i had
no idea why an ecu would buzz, but i told him that the "black box" was
very important and that he should call the rental company.

of course i'm not knocking western road trips, but i've always wondered
what was wrong with the ecu.  otherwise it seemed like a pretty solid
and clean van.

aaron
'87 syncro gl

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of Bob Stevens
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 7:02 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Vanagon In Autoweek Magazine - August 1, 2005

That is very cool! Thanks Brucue.

http://www.autoweek.com/article.cms?articleId=102839

bob

----Original Message Follows----
From: Bruce Nadig <motorbruce@HOTMAIL.COM>
Reply-To: Bruce Nadig <motorbruce@HOTMAIL.COM>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Vanagon In Autoweek Magazine - August 1, 2005
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 18:55:47 -0500

I can't believe that nobody has mentioned this yet.

The August 1, 2005 issue of Autoweek has an brief blurb on Vanagons.
There is even a picture of a beautiful blue Westy that is the same color
as my van Vincent.

The article is about summer road trips, and the section on Vanagons (and
a
EuroVan) begins on page 24. The article is about how great the Vanagon
(especially the Westy) is for road trips and camping. The article
begins:
"The best-known secret of the RV community is the humble and ubiquitous
Volkswagen van." There is a picture of a Vanagon Westy and a EuroVan.
The article talks about an outfit in Salt Lake City called Western Road
Trips.
It was started by two rock climbers that found the Vanagon to be the
perfect climbing assault vehicle. They started the company that rents
out VW campers (the company owns eight Westy Vanagons and one Westy
EuroVan).

It is nice to get some positive press from the mainstream media. I'm
just disappointed that they left out any mention of John Wallace.

Cheers,
Bruce
motorbruce@hotmail.com