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Subject:Re: Just like a Vanagon, but modern..
From:Dave Mcneely
Date:Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:17:19 -0600

Don, are you talking about this?  Looks like Hiace is a Toyota van from this information.  mcneely

---- Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> I know it is not Friday but I saw a Nissan Hiace today, driving through town
> and it went past my parked Vanagon.   They could be Clones.   Same size and
> shape and this Nissan had a cool awning and it looked like a camping
> interior.  Right hand drive and diesel.   Good looking modern beastie.
> Didn't see the plates.  It looked to me like a modern Vanagon, but
> Japanese.   I suppose the US forbids them being owned and registered here,
> or we would all have them, I suppose.
>
>   I am going to do some research about those thingys...I owned a Nissan one
> time and it was so dependable I never even knew what kinda motor was in
> it...Gas and drive...change the oil...and a couple of hundered thousand
> miles later, it got smooshed without ever giving me one single problem.  If
> I could have a Vanagon-like Nissan...I certainly would be all over it.
>
>    The Nissan Hiace drivers were checking out my Vanagon as they drove
> past.....wonder what they were saying to each other?
>
>   Don Hanson

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David McNeely