>There is a t shirt available on ebay, item #3943414885, which shows a >pre-80 air-cooled type body / bus camper and labels it as an 87 Vanagon >Camper GL. I wrote to T-shirt kings the seller pointing out that this >wasn't a vanagon in the picture and got the following reply: > >"We like to point out that the design of the T-shirt is not from the US >and outside the US the vehicle bodystyle was still produced in such >countries as Mexico (possibly still produced today), using the name >Vanagon." > >Is this correct? Was the name Vanagon ever used for any other body that >what we in the US and Canada call a Vanagon? I don't claim to know as >much about this nomenclature as several list members, but don't recall >Vanagon being used for that body type. I thought it would have been >called a transporter or a Kombi as in Brazil, on the page had linked in >an earlier email. One of my son's doctors is from Brazil and we have >talked about the Kombis before. > >Maybe I am wrong, so let me know. > >Sam

Indeed wrong. The T3 was called Vanagon in North America only; the T4 was sold as Vanagon in Japan. -- Andrew Grebneff Dunedin New Zealand Fossil preparator <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut