I have seen multivans advertised.  Am I under a mistaken idea that they are
normal 7 passenger vans with a poptops?

Joe
87 Weekender

>From: "Karl F. Bloss" <bloss@ENTER.NET>
>Reply-To: "Karl F. Bloss" <bloss@ENTER.NET>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: cooking in the van....
>Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 11:32:42 -0500
>
> > Exactly the reason that the Weekender is not a crippled camper.  Add a
> > cooler and it is as good as a full Westy.
>
>Well, I didn't want to get into all that, but that's exactly why I chose to
>cut
>a hole in the roof of a perfectly good van to make it into a poptop.  It
>was
>the only thing that I really wanted from the Westy.
>
>We have a 12V cooler which we can load indoors from our fridge (works great
>with icepacks because it's insulated very well) and a chuckbox to carry all
>the
>kitchen stuff including a white gas backpacking stove.  We still have the
>full-
>width bed, can add an awning, and we're good to camp.  If I want to cook in
>the
>van, I just swing out the table and do it there.  Otherwise, we like to
>cook on
>a picnic table or our roll-out table.
>
>Most of the time I leave all that stuff at home for grocery getting and I
>don't
>get the Westy lefty lean.  :-)
>
>Nothing against full Westys, of course, but it's not what we needed.
>
>-Karl
>
>
>Karl and Kristina Bloss, Trexlertown, PA
>'87 Westfalia Weekender  "Beverley" - 190K miles
>http://www.enter.net/~bloss/vw/
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>

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