Date:         Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:17:40 -0700
Reply-To:     jimt <wetwesty@TACTICAL-BUS.INFO>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         jimt <wetwesty@TACTICAL-BUS.INFO>
Subject:      Re: VW van nomenclature
Comments: To: Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
In-Reply-To:  <a06002008bdd1ffe73996@[218.101.117.171]>
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??? The van was sold in japan??    What year and version was sold there?

BTW I sent the seller a detail list of why his listing was incorrect and
today go a blank reply back.  Checked ebay and the listing is gone.

That one also got me extremely irritated over the use of the vw logo on a
very obviously not licensed commercial or hobbyist product.


On 11/30/04 3:58 AM, "Andrew Grebneff"
<andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ> wrote:

>> 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
> 
> 

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