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Subject:Re: What's the strangest think you've found in a "new" Vanagon
From:Tom Rowsell
Date:Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:41:35 -0300

Or...perhaps the one behind the electrical outlet, to the left of the tiny
compartment. The one you access by lifting the floor of the right-most
top-loading compartment...confusing?  :)
see http://www.semyan.com/OurVan/Images/Dscn0102.jpg

Tom

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Peter T. Owsianowski <
pnoceanwesty@gmail.com> wrote:

> Loren might referring to the area for the extra battery right behind the
> driver's seat.
>
>
> --
> Pete
> '79 Westy "Aardvark"
> '87 Westy "Joe's Van"
> WWW.Busesbythebeach.com
>
>
> 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.
> > >
> >
>