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Subject:Re: What's the strangest think you've found in a "new" Vanagon
From:Peter T. Owsianowski
Date:Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:17:29 -0400

Loren might referring to the area for the extra battery right behind the
driver's seat.

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Pete
'79 Westy "Aardvark"
'87 Westy "Joe's Van"
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On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 2:36 AM, PB <pbrattan@gmail.com> wrote:

> Where is the "secret compartment?"
> Patti
> *****************************
>
> On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 7:21 PM, Loren Busch <starwagen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >  Not found in my Westy but in a Syncro Westy I was looking at to possibly
> > buy.  It was a legal import from Canada and may have originally been sold
> > in
> > Europe.  While poking around the inside looking for rust (there was a lot
> > of
> > seam rust on the outside, that's why I didn't buy it) I opend the
> 'secrect
> > compartment' and pulled out a dusty, never opend (it looked) VW issue
> from
> > the factory First Aid Kit.  The owner was astonished, he not only had
> never
> > seen it but was unaware of that hidden storage area.  I told him that
> there
> > were collectors that would probably pay a premium for that first aid kit.
> >
>