Date:         Mon, 29 Nov 2004 12:07:39 -0500
Reply-To:     Sam Walters <sam.cooks@VERIZON.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Sam Walters <sam.cooks@VERIZON.NET>
Subject:      VW van nomenclature
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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


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Sam Walters
Baltimore, MD

89 Syncro GL
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