Date:         Thu, 16 Dec 2004 19:47:48 -0500
Reply-To:     Roger Van Till <rvantill@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         Roger Van Till <rvantill@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: Vanagon etymology
Comments: To: Tim Demarest <tim.demarest@POBOX.COM>
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My wife's a graphic artist, I'll see if I can talk her into working up
a t-shirt design.

Roger

On Dec 16, 2004, at 5:18 PM, Tim Demarest wrote:

> Yeah, but I like your analysis better... lends itself nicely to a
> t-shirt... "Pentagon, Octagon, Vanagon" inside outline drawings of
> each...
>
> At 03:54 PM 12/16/2004 -0600, Jim Felder wrote:
>> Hmmm... I'd never thought of the van+(w)agon angle. Leave it to me to
>> complicate things.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> On Dec 16, 2004, at 3:43 PM, Detroit Bus wrote:
>>
>>> Jim, I've never heard that analysis, but it is certainly more
>>> creative
>>> than what I've always thought, that its just a combination of "van"
>>> and "station wagon" (the official American name of the original VW
>>> bus....)
>>>
>>> I actually quite like that.
>>>
>>> Garrick
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:22:17 -0600, Jim Felder <felder@knology.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> The vanagon name is an interesting one, anybody with some good
>>>>> insight
>>>>> on
>>>>> how vw came up with it?
>>>> I always figured it was to create a name for a unique shape, like
>>>> pentagon, octagon... vanagon. It does have a distinctive shape, and
>>>> it
>>>> is rather rectilinear.
>>>>
>>>> Vanagon = dimensional locomotive solid with parallel opposite sides,
>>>> the volume of various liquids required to fill it being inversely
>>>> proportional to the amount of money spent on it divided by time
>>>> spent
>>>> underneath it minus parts scrounged for it.
>>>>
>>>> Don't think outside the box, think under it.
>>>>
>>>> Jim
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Garrick, Queens, NY
>>> '87 GL Weekender
>>>
>>> *****
>>> With fond remembrances of:
>>> '77 Beetle
>>> '67 Bus
>>> '59 Pickup sn# 460440
>>> '67 Beetle
>>> '76 Camper Bus
>