Yeah, if it was anything like my friends 2003 Eurovan Westfalia, not much to envy except that VR6 engine. Not much room, stupid electric "cooler" (holds a 6 pack) his canvas has already rotted and his a/c quit twice. Jeff Stewart ----- Original Message -----
> Yesterday I was checking my email, sitting in my van in the parking
> lot
> of a public library in the desert SW. A quite new white Eurovan camper
> pulled in beside me and the youngish couple got out and went inside.
> When
> they returned, the guy walked over and put his face against my window,
> shading his eyes to see inside....He was a bit startled when I tapped
> on
> the window and said hello, from behind my dark tinted windows....He
> began
> asking me about my "old van"...and was amazed to discover it had been
> built
> the same year he was born.....A Swiss couple, touring the US in their
> van.....Nice people..
> I think I prefer my own van to theirs, though. I think mine works
> better, has better ground clearance, and it certainly has "more
> character". They didn't offer to trade, but if they had, they may have
> been refused.......Wait.....I could have probably sold that fancy new
> factory camper after a trade, and got about 20 vans like mine, or
> maybe a
> syncro and an inline VW 5sp like this one and had money left over.....
> Don Hanson