Date:         Mon, 1 May 2000 07:26:24 -0500
Reply-To:     k1cajun <k1cajun@PIPELINE.COM>
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From:         k1cajun <k1cajun@PIPELINE.COM>
Subject:      Re: newby to the list  from Australia
Comments: To: Frank Loi <frankloi@TURBOWEB.NET.AU>
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Frank Loi wrote:

>
> It took me months of searching the net to find this place until I learned
> that in America you call them vanagons; How did they get that name?
> You fellas heard of a kombi or transporter? ;-)

The name is a combination of VAN and wAGON.  The owner's manual says
"Vanagon/Transporter", but the nameplate on the vehicles just said Vanagon.

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