Date:         Thu, 11 Mar 2004 23:29:48 -0800
Reply-To:     Antaki <wrack@COMCAST.NET>
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From:         Antaki <wrack@COMCAST.NET>
Subject:      Re: Head ON Vanagon COLLISION pics
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Aw, c'mon, Vanogon is not that bad of a name. Pity poor Honda, who was
stuck using the inverse version - Wagovan.
Betcha don't see many of those around anymore. Of course, there are more
Odysseys around than Vanagons...

Wagovan is one of those words I could see Bevis cracking up on.

Ron Antaki

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of Andrew Grebneff
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 9:49 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Head ON Vanagon COLLISION pics


>>Looks like those listees have no idea what EXOTIC means.
>
>Similar to the way some of us have no idea what VANAGON means?

Well, "exotic" has a definite meaning. It means "from elsewhere". That's
all.

"Vanagon" is a synthetic and (ugly) junk word, and basically
meaningless... fortunately it was only used in North America for the T3
(why couldn't they have just called it Type 2 or Transporter??) and for
the T4 in Japan.
--
Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin, New Zealand
64 (3) 473-8863
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
Fossil preparator
Seashell, Macintosh & VW/Toyota van nut
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