Your daughter is a woman after my own heart.  I have been wanting to make
one of these for years although I would probably use an 85 Vanagon with the
round lights and I would put the spare on the front (I think it would be
fine).  Or you could use an aircooled and then definitely the spare would
not hurt anything.  I wish her well with the van and also as you serves our
country.  You would be surprised how many of my customers are in the
military and also own a Vanagon!

Thanks,
Ken Wilford
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-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Allen Hill
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 8:55 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Mystery machine

Greetings All,
I am not sure if this will work, but I put up a couple of photos of my
daughter's 1886 Vanagon also known as the "Mystery Machine" at this link.
http://s129.photobucket.com/albums/p218/Vulcan15e/?action=view&current=11635
55021.pbw

My daughter drew it all up and was very picky about everything being as it
was in the cartoon series.  The only thing we don't have is the spare tire
up front due to a potential cooling problem.  The inside is about as wild as
the outside.

I got this together to also show as an alternative to the plain window
tinting.  The sign on both sides and the "gang" on the back were painted on
the fabric that has thousands of little 1/8 inch holes.  It allows plenty of
visibility from the inside while blocking people from looking in from the
outside. The only problem we have is getting the crowds away whenever it is
parked somewhere!

Did I also say she is our third child that went to the military?  She is now
in the Air National Guard - Reserve.  Everyone here is quite proud of here.

Route 66 Rider!
Ramon Hill
Live Long and Be Free