ghost!!!!

[robins]

here is pic from bristol Xmas run,there was only two of us when when we went :?

who did we take home :?: or do they live in the van,the misses wont go in it now.
so just me and boy :wink:

 

[ground hugger]

Looks like shes giving you a right nagging (Mother in-law)

 

[robins]

ummmm she looks like a ........ better not.maybe the reflection of the person that
took the photo :?

 

[flynster]

oooeeerrrr all creeped out now fella.....how the hell am i gonna sleep now :lol:
ste :mrgreen:

 

[robins]

how we ever gonna sleep in the van :!:

for sale 69 delux sun roof with.........

 

[flynster]

i`ll give ya £100 NO MORE!

 

[ground hugger]

could be jigsaw :shock:

 

[robins]

could be jigsaw :shock:

i havn't seen the film but my daughter has now she wont go in it!

£250 its yours :lol:

 

[flynster]

250 squid no thanks dood keep it , it gives me the willies ooerr :lol: :lol:

 

[the councillor]

:wink:

 

[BigG]

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.aidan.co.uk/md/VwVanBayEBrist1972.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.aidan.co.uk/article_vw_camper_van_ghost_story.htm&usg=__zjdaLxB1fW1mbHJXLJiUUWy9c-g=&h=248&w=330&sz=22&hl=en&start=13&um=1&tbnid=Eupe3R19ny_PZM:&tbnh=89&tbnw=119&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dghost%2Bvw%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4GGLL_en-GBGB304GB304" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
:shock:

 

[Hilly_70]

.. that ghost story on the last link ..

... its a bloody fib ..

quote :It was the late fall early winter of 1972, around October, November time. The first snow flakes of winter were blowing in from the north.

Elliott was on his way from his home base at the time, Iowa City, to a gig in Wyoming, some 500 miles to the north west.

He was driving in the pale blue and cream VW bay camper van which had been provided by Volkswagen of America. It had now clocked up quite a few thousand miles.

the picture is a late bay .. and even if it was one of the first lates the previous time described and the covering of thousands of miles makes it impossible ... or a proto type!

.. I'll get my cigar and rain mac and quote smuggly .. ... "er just one more thing"

Hilly

:roll:

 

[BigG]

Did make me wonder, did the Yanks get the high indicators before anyone else? It was aimed at the US market after all And coming direct from VW could have been a prototype, maybe with a prototype automatic opening door :mrgreen:
Possibly he just got the date wrong Good story if its true.

 

[Araon]

You need to define quite a few thousand miles afterall that one trip alone was a 1000 mile round trip.... if hes regularly clocking up that mileage you never know, plus factor in the ravages of time on the old grey matter and things / figures / dates get a little muddled....

 

[BigG]

Just did a little research and it seems the last of the 72 crossovers did inherit the high indicator/late bumpers (whilst retaining the petrol flap, sliding door and dash of the regular crossover) Full late bays arrived in 73 and as for the milage I myself managed 4000 in 10 days driving from Santa Monica to New York via Texas a few years back.

"So if there are no further questions detective Columbo, I have a busy day." :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

 

[Benyon]

.. that ghost story on the last link ..

... its a bloody fib ..

quote :It was the late fall early winter of 1972, around October, November time. The first snow flakes of winter were blowing in from the north.

Elliott was on his way from his home base at the time, Iowa City, to a gig in Wyoming, some 500 miles to the north west.

He was driving in the pale blue and cream VW bay camper van which had been provided by Volkswagen of America. It had now clocked up quite a few thousand miles.

the picture is a late bay .. and even if it was one of the first lates the previous time described and the covering of thousands of miles makes it impossible ... or a proto type!

.. I'll get my cigar and rain mac and quote smuggly .. ... "er just one more thing"

Hilly

:roll:

I beg to differ kind sir...

The first page of the story states:

Volkswagen of America, ...were so impressed ... they gave him one, a brand new shiny VW Bay camper van

Say the author in saying "brand new shiney" means not only new and shiney, but also brand new as in new model, ie built Aug 72 and therefore a '73 model, square bumpers and high indicators ('73s with round bumpers and leftover panels aside). Its not unfeasible that at this time he was driving the new model VW Transporter Type2b. Then as you quote above,

It had now clocked up quite a few thousand miles

...how many, 3000 could that be deemed as a few thousand? And further to the above, if VWoA had given him the van in August and it was now Oct/Nov then he had been using the van for 3 months, maybe only two months but even so it is quite possible that he clocked up 3000 miles in two months especially as his current journey was "to a gig in Wyoming, some 500 miles to the north west", he'd only need 6 of these 'gigs' to reach 3000miles. As the story reads he spent most of his time on the road, I however have an office job but still do 20k+ miles each year in my daily which is over 3k miles every two months.

'Horses for courses...' maybe. Sorry, I am bored at work, tho not much longer by all accounts

 

[Hilly_70]

ok ..... I'll buy that !

The cigar is stubbed out and the raincoat is on ebay..

Hilly :wink: