Have you seen "The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe" yet?  There's a really
cool wardrobe in it that is a portal to another world.     :-)

Probably get one into your Westy!

On 3/3/06, John Bange <jbange@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > If all designers listened to the likes of automobile engineers with
> > similar
> > dispositions regarding these �imagination masturbation� exercises than
> > nothing of true design impact would ever be created. You would get
> square
> > box cars with, hard uncomfortable interiors,  no curves, no innovation
> and
> > zero design sensibility.
> > The industrial designers job is see that it can be done within the
> > parameters the auto manufactures provide them, and in some cases they
> > succeed.
>
>
> Granted, but there's a difference between a design that pushes the
> boundaries of modern manufacturing capabilities, and a design that simply
> cannot be made without the aid of faerie godmothers and pixie dust. The
> verdier concept westy looks neat, but the designer's grasp of mechanical
> engineering is practically nil. It is firmly and completely within the
> pixie
> dust realm. Maybe I'm just too much of an engineer at heart, but I'm just
> not intrigued by a design that (to me) might as well have a magic door
> leading to a 40 room italian villa under the rear seat, for all its
> plausibility.
>
> --
> John Bange
> '90 Vanagon - "Geldsauger"
>

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Jake
1984 Vanagon GL
1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
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