Late entry, but I'm submitting an edited version of my
response from the last time this subject came up:

Age 53 and I�m not currently a VW guy, but I want a
Westy.  Bad.  (Three years later, I got my '87 Westy!)

First vehicle purchase was an engineless �62 Beetle
with fabric sunroof.

A few years later in the military I bought a �63
camper, which I now know to describe as a hatchroof
Westy split with a roof rack. Rust. Sold that and
bought Amurrican.

Later on got a �76 Dasher wagon, which I loved.

Two years (now five years) ago a buddy gave up bay
Westies after 30 years and two vans.  I suddenly
developed the inexplicable and hitherto unfelt need
for a Vanagon Westy.  I�ve never driven a Vanagon, I
don�t camp, and the van I have now is, from everything
I�ve read on this list, a better vehicle in nearly
every respect, but I want a Westy and I�m dangerously
close to getting one.  We�ll see.  Meanwhile I�ll keep
posting Vanagon finds in Virginia.

(Well, now I have a Vanagon/bus/camper, we do camp in
it, and we really like it.  I think we feel younger
because of it.  Looking ahead to trips to the Badlands
and Baja.)

Stephen

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