Iltis in Barrhaven (Ottawa)

[maple_leaf_eh]

Well done Stuart!

A former coworker has a Westfalia and it happens to have a particular style of ladder on the back door. He jokes of being offered hundreds of dollars, new born children, sexual favours, and all manner of inducements in exchange. To me it's just an oxidized aluminum ladder; other people see things I don't. Which is part of our Rusty Old Truck syndrome too.

[James P]

Hey Stuart

Wow great pictures, I brought my camera, even had new batteries for it and it never left the bag so many thanks for taking some pics, and posting. Your very fine Iltis and the work you have invested in it seemed to have a steady stream of folks (volks?) enjoying seeing one. As you noted on Sunday it is always cool talking to retired CF members who get a bit of a trip down memory lane when seeing a Iltis. The two classiest cars there in my humble opinion where yours and mine................maybe I should have driven over to the row of shiny (and boring) Porsches and parked there for awhile. I like telling people at car shows, While all the cars in attendance have history, mine (and yours) MADE history.

Details of my car

VW Schwimmwagen 7-011602
Built : 29 March 1944
left factory (Wolfsburg) on : 31 March 1944
Issued at Heereszeugamt Kassel, Germany

Transported to Italy, issued to 278th Infantry Division

AND a Gothic Line veteran