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Subject:Re: cheap '85 vanagon ASI Popup camper on Samba
Date:Tue, 20 Sep 2005 01:55:23 EDT

In a message dated 9/19/05 9:18:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
camper@TACTICAL-BUS.INFO writes:

> It is an ASI and I believe 85 model year were there last ones.  Of that I
> have only heard of a couple.  However when I try to track down anything of
> the company I cant find anything done after 84?? It is one of the mysteries
> as I cant find anyone with any facts on the last couple years of the company
> that vanished over night.
> jimt
>
>

yea i have never seen a waterboxer ASI/Riviera camper in my life..  ive only
seen aircooled ASI campers..  a friend of mine had a orange '80 ASI camper
that started out life as a kombi vanagon, and i know someone else who had a '76
bus ASI camper as well. ..one cool thing about the ASI was that if you ordered
the deluxe full camper package, then it came standard with a LP heater..   i
had always figured ASI (Automotive Services Inc, out of Vancouver (?) WA. had
gone out of business before the advent of the waterboxer vanagon..  so i guess
this 85 is one of their last, perhaps..

chris