They make new ones! They just don't import them to the US. But you can buy them even in Mexico. Of course, they are front-engined and not forward control, and you won't be able to fix the engine with duct tape and bail wire, but hey. You could probably make a really nice reliable camper from a turbo diesel VW T5.
If you guys think the Pentax world is full of obsessive geeks, take a look at the world of VW buses... Crazy (but in a good way) :) j On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Steven Desjardins <drd1...@gmail.com> wrote: > I wonder how the vans would sell if VW made a new one? The beauty of > the really old ones was that you could fix the engine with a nail > file. > > On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 5:19 AM, Derby Chang <der...@iinet.net.au> wrote: >> >> Mind blown. You have been doing this since the middle of this year, and we >> didn't know? >> >> I'm following both every day. >> >> >> >> >> >> On 15/10/2012 2:42 AM, Juan Buhler wrote: >>> >>> Hello PDML! >>> >>> I figured I'd come out of my lurkerdom and post a link. >>> >>> My girlfriend, dog and I are driving from California to Tierra del >>> Fuego with a VW camper van. And two Pentaxes (K5 and WG-1) >>> >>> I'm still posting photos daily to my photoblog, >>> http://photoblog.jbuhler.com . But our trip blog is this: >>> >>> http://www.vanenvan.com >>> >>> Lots of the photos there are taken with my K5 and WG-1 (I alternate >>> with the Leica, and the GF shoots Canon and Panasonic micro 4/3) >>> >>> I thought some of you would be interested in reading. We're a bit over >>> a month into the trip, just north of Puerto Vallarta right now. We'll >>> spend about six months in Mexico, then continue south. The idea is to >>> take at least a year to get to Argentina. >>> >>> j >>> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > > -- > Steve Desjardins > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Juan Buhler - http://www.jbuhler.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
