

| Subject: | Re: Bus graveyard |
| From: | mark drillock |
| Date: | Sun, 21 Nov 2010 06:24:22 -0800 |
That is the Westy P22 layout, sold in 80/81. The full Westy P27 was sold those years too so there was a choice. It has a 3 person bench seat that folds into a 2 person bed, since the closet is behind the longer end of the bench. A smaller kitchen unit allows room for the 3 person seating. In other markets that layout was more popular and continued for years. It sometimes came with a stove installed into that smaller sinktop. The icebox our P22 version came with also could be replaced with a 3 way Dometic. Mark Jim Felder wrote: > Last week on the way back from an out of town meeting I passed through > a small community where there is an old house with hundreds of VWs, > dozens of buses and a handful of vanagons. I pulled in and talked with > the guy working in the barn. He was a very nice guy who sold a few > parts but is mainly in the business of pulling bus transmissions to > put Into rail buggies. He had hundreds and hundreds of engines. > > His two vanagons were aircooled and pretty rough, though he wasn't > planning to part out either (I was looking for a windshield). It was > my first look at aircooled vanagon westies. Both had front cabinets > with fridges and pantries, but under the lid there was no stove but > only a sink. The water tank was under the bed. The clothes closet was > the same as later westies, but the cabinet between the closet and the > stove was much lower than the later ones and had no table above it. > > Was this a common layout back in aircooled days? > > Jim >
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