Allistair�s  �commode� comment reminds me of the very first Vanagon I went to look at to purchase. It was 1993 in Berkeley and this �88 Westy belonged to a German guy that I would describe as a rather large aging �euro hippie� with some (ahem) negligence in the grooming dept. Anyway, he was very excited to show me the van which was in excellent condition. I had been lusting after a Westy for several years by then and more or less knew what to look for when looking for one but when I spotted this factory-looking box located behind the front passenger seat, I had to ask him about it. He lit up like a Christmas tree and spent the next five minutes describing the virtues of the Westfalia toilet-box. The first minute passed with the few polite nods I could manage for the subject, but it started getting a little awkward when he started telling me about all the places along the side of the road in America where he had stopped to take a poop in his beloved Vanagon.

It was a really nice van but I just couldn�t shake the visual. Didn�t buy that one but I found a nice Syncro a month later, have had it ever since and have never taken a poop in it.

Jeff

On Dec 11, 2013, at 6:21 AM, Automatic digest processor <LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> wrote:

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> Date:    Wed, 11 Dec 2013 00:24:47 -0800
> From:    Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
> Subject: =?utf-8?Q?Re:_your_laugh_for_the_day_-_=E2=80=9CThe_Swellegant_S?=
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> My friend Simon immediately named it "the commode". Sheesh.
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> And hey, aren't you the guy who squeezes out things via a big brass tube?
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> :)
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> Cheers
> 
> Alistair