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Date:         Mon, 15 Jan 2007 13:10:36 -0700
Reply-To:     Warren Lail <vw.bus@MAC.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Warren Lail <vw.bus@MAC.COM>
Comments: To: JordanVw@aol.com
In-Reply-To:  <c2d.8760479.32dd37bb@aol.com>
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Good point, my bus bother! And yes, I did forget to include a subject line. Dang, makin' mistakes all over the place!

Warren 88 Westy "Billy Bones"

On Jan 15, 2007, at 1:02 PM, JordanVw@aol.com wrote:

> 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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