I met Warren, too, at BBTB 2009 at Lake Havasu.� He seemed to take a particular interest in my homemade camper conversion; he liked the queen-size-plus bed and the extra room without all the Westy equipment.� In fact, he just climbed right in and stretched out (all 6' 9" of him) and tried it out, made himself at home!� It was an honor to have a "legend" take 5 minutes to check out my ride.

By the way, I was similarly honored to have finally met two other Vanagon "legends", Maggie Dew and Larry Chase.� Good times those Vanagon events.

Rich
85 Vanagon GL with Homemade camper conversion
San Diego

--- On Wed, 9/16/09, Maggie Dew <wildebus@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

From: Maggie Dew <wildebus@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Warren Chapman drives his Syncro into the sunset...
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 6:01 PM

I finally had the pleasure of meeting Warren at Buses by the Bridge
this year.� He was very supportive while I was in the process of
converting A.B. to a Subie-Westy back in 2004.� He joked with me that
when I first started posting on the Subaru-Vanagon list, he thought it
odd that there was a "guy" named Maggie out there.

He has helped so many people - and will be missed.

Maggie