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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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