In a message dated 1/15/07 2:24:15 PM Eastern Standard Time, vw.bus@MAC.COM writes:
> Er ahh, not to stir up a controversy with my bus brother chris, and > especially since right now I'm only getting to read bits and pieces > of the digests, but I drive a 1988 VW bus that is called, for > marketing purposes, a Vanagon. The same bus is called a Transporter > (England), a Minibus (South Africa) (through 2002) and who knows what > in other places around the globe. If it looks like a bus, sounds > like a bus, smells like a bus, has a rear engine like a bus, causes > the eyes of little kids to open wide when they see it like a bus, > gets blown around in the wind like a bus, toots it horn like a bus, > makes others who drive buses wave when we pass on the highway like a > bus . . . then as far as I'm concerned it's a bus. > > Billy Bones, a bus :-) > Warren, my fellow bus brother, you forgot to put a subject in the heading.. :<) if you really want to get technical, then we can all just call them T3's. i think thats something we can all agree on. But here in the good 'ol USA, VWOA (and VWOC) had decided to call the '80-'91 T3's "Vanagons", so i do as well to avoid confusion.. lets not confuse the poor newbie? Most people in the USA associate the name "Vanagon" with the '80-'91 vans and the name "Bus" with the '79 down vans anyway.. now if we lived in Europe it'd be different. just easier to say "vanagon" than '80-'91 "T3-25BusTransporterVanagonCaravelleWhateverUwannaCallit".. but yes, you can call Billy whatever you want to call him :<) and ps, i think VWSA called their T3's "Microbus" not "Minibus" :<) chris who owns a bunch of Vanagons - aka US model T3's..and one T3 Transporter |
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