Soo that was an icebox, not a fridge. No wonder I couldn't find the controls!

Jim

On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 8:24 AM, mark drillock <mdrillock@cox.net> wrote:
> 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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