I would have to guess is after spending all that big money on a  Go Westy
rebuild they
camp rain or shine so they can get their money's worth out of it....

B

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Robert Fisher <refisher@mchsi.com> wrote:

> Guess I'm confused... I thought the question was whether people with the
> GoWesty engine liked camping in the rain?
>
> Cya,
> Robert
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
> John Meeks
> Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 9:16 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Your GoWesty Engine...how do you like it?
>
>  So, how DO you damp campers like your GoWesty engine ;-)
> John Meeks
> '91 Multivan
> Northern Michigan
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> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@cox.net> wrote:
>
> > I have never noticed that my camper smells like smoke after campfires,
> > even when the weather is wet.  Partly that may be due to accommodation,
> > but I would think that if I have the fire, drive home, park the van for
> > a couple of days, it is rainy, and I open the door, if the smell was
> > there, I'd get it.  Maybe I am just insensitive to that smell, but my
> > clothes do retain it, and when I wash them several days after the fire,
> > I can smell it on them as I put them in the washer.
> >
> > Dave Mc
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
> >
> >  Arranging 8 kids and 2 dogs and a fire under/in a Shady Boy and a van
> >> musta took some doing. Did the van smell like smoke the rest of the
> >> year?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> >> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> >> 74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
> >> Bend, OR
> >> KG6RCR
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 10/12/2009 5:30 PM Peter T. Owsianowski wrote:
> >>
> >>  Once in the Mannistee Nat'l Forest - 2nd day of two-tracking, it
> >>> began to
> >>> rain shorty after breakfast.  4 adults, 4 kids, 2 dogs.  We sat under
> >>> the
> >>> Shadyboy in a soft rain (most of the day.  Had a nice little fire
> >>> that kept
> >>> going in the rain, smoke going the other way.  Had a nice Monopoly
> >>> game,
> >>> beers, lunch.  Kids played cards in the bus, parents sat out under
> >>> the
> >>> awning.  Have not been able to repeat that as our kids moved into the
> >>> teenage years, the rain made it really difficult to keep them
> >>> interested.
> >>>
> >>> Pete
> >>> '79 Westy "Aardvark"
> >>> '87 Westy "Joe's Van"
> >>> WWW.Busesbythebeach.com <http://www.busesbythebeach.com/>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Jake de Villiers
> >>>
> >>
>