This is not a van I bought but one I went to look at.� The seller was a dealer and obviously unfamiliar with Vanagons.� Although the text of the ad was extensive and thorough you could tell it was written by someone not a devotee.� The lady left me to inspect the van on the lot and as she was walking away I called out, "Did you happen to look under the back seat?"� I was able to show her that compartment crammed with stuff; shoes, books, video games, papers, shopping bags.� Probably lots of other good stuff I did not dig to find.
�
Stephen

--- On Tue, 1/3/12, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET> wrote:

From: Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject: Re: Strangest thing you've found in a new bus?
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Date: Tuesday, January 3, 2012, 11:02 AM

When I bought my van, the poptop bed was perfectly made up with sheets and a really good wool blanket, one of the "Hudson's Bay" type blankets.� I offered the bedding to the seller, and he just said, "Really, well I guess it's yours now."� He was the second owner of the van, used it very little, and I suspect he didn't even know the stuff was there until I raised the top when I was inspecting the beast.

mcneely

---- Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU> wrote:
> Oh all right, I'll guess I'll toss in my weird find too.
>
> A horseshoe.� A real horseshoe, from a horse.
>
> You go figure...
>
>
>
> Joy
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 11:06 AM, T Collins <tonycollin@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Ok, I'll contribute
> >
> > This is not a weird thing as much as where it was.....
> >
> > Many of you (I'm sure) have seen those metal dishes that are
> > magnetized. We use them when we are taking things appart so that
> > things like bolts and nuts stay put.
> > Like the one below:
> > http://i00.i.aliimg.com/photo/237948897/Magnetic_Dish.jpg
> >
> > Well, I found it months after I bought my vanagon. It was ontop of the
> > rear drivers side trailing arm. I drove the Vanagon from Cincinnati
> > OH, to Ann Arbor, MI. It was grimmy and still had cotter pins on
> > it....
> >
> > So yes not a weird item. Just placement.
> >
> > Tony
> >
> >
> > On 1/2/12, Courtney Hook <courtneyhook@shaw.ca> wrote:
> > > A lovely gold ring with a small stone in it. Not that big, probably for a
> > > child, but what really p***ed me off, is that the people I bought the van
> > > off kept it after I showed them, even though they said it wasn't
> > theirs!!! I
> > > was just as dumb for not keeping it, but at the moment, I didn't object.
> > :-/
> > > I'm now older and wiser, and gold is worth 1600 an ounce.
> > > Courtney
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
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> >
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> > Lisa<
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> > *
> >

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David McNeely