Date:         Thu, 16 Dec 2004 17:18:29 -0500
Reply-To:     Tim Demarest <tim.demarest@POBOX.COM>
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From:         Tim Demarest <tim.demarest@POBOX.COM>
Subject:      Re: Vanagon etymology
Comments: To: Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
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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