OK, this is about a bus, but that's close. The strangest thing I think
I ever found was in a 1964 split window bus that I owned twice. The
second time I owned it, I found a pair of vise grips hanging from the
clutch cable that I had used to adjust it--remember that butterfly nut
under there?--the first time I owned it.

I bought my 90 new so there was nothing to find in it. My diesel westy
came with a bunch of doper stickers inside the cabinet doors that had
to be scraped off. I had never noticed the most blatant of them
(inside the rear cabinet with shelves) when I had the van at my local
shop with a question. I opened it to pull out the Bentley and the
owner saw them and looked at me and said "well!...." with a big grin.

Jim

On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Joy Hecht <hecht.joy@gmail.com> wrote:
> My sister and brother-in-law have an '82 vanagon (VC) and an old bug that
> doesn't run.  When their kids were younger they regularly had "paint the
> bug" parties, sent the kids out with poster paints and let them decorate the
> bug however they liked.  In due course it washed off in the rain and snow,
> then when the next birthday came around another bunch of kids would have a
> chance to paint it.
>
> After the kids got older they used the bug to store logs for their wood
> stove, placed conveniently right outside the door to the house.  And then
> they towed it up onto a mound in a nearby field (they live way out in the
> country) and decorated it with Christmas lights.  It has become a local
> landmark - occasionally shows up in photographs showing the quirky things
> people do in upstate NY.
> As for things found in vans - a horseshoe in mine.  I'm guessing it was from
> the first owner, in Texas - somehow the Palestinian accountant in suburban
> Richmond, VA didn't seem like the type to have horses!
>
>
> Joy
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 3:17 AM, Bob Stevens <mtbiker62@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> Crayon "art" on the pop top above the upper bunk that was revealed after
>> popping the top. Pink butterfly's, squiggly-creatures, zodiacal-circles, all
>> from the children of the man I got the van from. Easy to clean off but kind
>> of a little "trip" to imagine just how much fun they must have had, making
>> the van their very own that way. Took me back to when my own daughters were
>> little tykes and doing the same thing on "secret canvases" of their
>> choosing.
>>
>> bob
>> '87 Syncro Westy ... artistically-embellished
>>
>
>
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