On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Daniel Rotblatt <d.rotblatt@verizon.net>wrote:

> Chris -
> The van is pretty sweet.
>
> Dan
> Los Angeles, CA
> '85 Westy Weekender
>
> On Apr 23, 2011, at 5:27 PM, chris and/or ruth wrote:
>
>
>  Congratulations on your new Vanagon!  It's a good day.
>>
>> My kids #1 accessory is the electric fly swatter. Ya, weird, I know.
>>
>> Chris C
>>
>>   My favorite was a spring loaded fly swatter like a dart gun.  Remember
dart guns, before they became "too dangerous to sell to consumers"?  This
fly swatter gun had a round fly swatter on a dart shaft.  You could push
that into the spring loaded gun (like the original darts that had suction
cups on them,,,you shot them against a slick target board)  It even had a
little string, so you didn't have to get up and fetch the fly-dart after you
shot the skeeter or fly.
Around my family's old trailer, when we 'moved up' from camping in the tent
and the Ford woodie station wagon...you could wait for the fly or mosquito
to land, then Shoot the Sucker!  I wish I still had that...

  My dad also had a swatter with a hole in the center...It came from Bud
Lilly's Fly Shop in West Yellowstone, Montana...the center was left out and
on the handle it said..."Give the flys a sporting chance"...Mom hated
that...

  Oh, vanagons......I made a box the fits behind the passenger's seat. It's
just tall enough to fit under the fold down bed (and it helps support the
front of the bed  if your S.O. insists on 'plunking down' on it like it was
a normal bed...)  Inside that box lives my porto pot, when I have it along,
my dog stuff, etc.  I take the box outside as a spare camp stool and it also
doubles as a workbench and a step.