Date:         Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:52:03 -0800
Reply-To:     Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: bus?
Comments: To: The Bus Depot <vanagon@BUSDEPOT.COM>
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I'm driving a station wagon??? Dang, then I want faux-wood side panels and
lots more chrome!

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
KG6RCR



On 1/10/2008 8:35 AM The Bus Depot wrote:

>> I took my 83 GL Diesel to the Ohio DMV to register it.
>> They punched the vin into the computer, and I didn't pay much
>> attention. After I got home, and read the registration card.
>> It seems, I now own a "STATION WAGON"
>
>
> Technically they're correct. In fact, according to both Volkswagen and the
> U.S. Government, we're all driving station wagons. VW has legally classified
> the Bus and Vanagon as station wagons in the U.S. for the last 40 years or
> so, to skirt the 25% U.S. import tax imposed on foreign made trucks.
>
> - Ron Salmon
>   The Bus Depot, Inc.
>   www.busdepot.com
>   (215)  234-VWVW
>
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