Date:         Fri, 13 May 2005 10:25:07 -0700
Reply-To:     "MacLachlan, Bill" <Bill.MacLachlan@CITY.BURNABY.BC.CA>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         "MacLachlan, Bill" <Bill.MacLachlan@CITY.BURNABY.BC.CA>
Subject:      Re: "Favorite Vanagon Features"
Comments: To: Bruce Nadig <motorbruce@HOTMAIL.COM>
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1) The look on an uninitiated face when they turn from the passenger
seat and look at the space behind them and say something like  "wow
there's a lot of room in here!" 

2) How the uninitiated clamber into the passenger seat for the first
time....they're all different...

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of Bruce Nadig
Sent: May 13, 2005 9:58 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: "Favorite Vanagon Features"

My favorite design feature, shared with the split windshield and bay
window busses, is the fact that you are sitting directly above the front
wheels. It is always fun to make passengers freak out when you go to
park it nose in up next to a retaining wall, bushes, etc.

Without exception, the unitiated passengers will scream, hold on, or
panic in some other way as they think the van is about to crash.

Cheers,
Bruce
motorbruce
motorbruce@hotmail.com


>From: Don Spence <dkspence@TELUS.NET>
>Reply-To: Don Spence <dkspence@TELUS.NET>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: "Favorite Vanagon Features"
>Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 10:35:25 -0600
>
>OK Time for a new compilation of "Quirky things that make a Vanagon 
>Interesting and unique and that you need to know if you are going to 
>live with one"
>
>  Along with the location of the brake/clutch reservoir, washer bottle 
>refill, oil tube extension, there must be other "Quirks" or design 
>features that are unique to these vehicles and that knowing about would

>elicit amazement and wonder. Westies too!
>How about it listees, what are your "Favorite Vanagon/Westy Features"