Date:         Mon, 1 Mar 2010 18:30:34 -0800
Reply-To:     Joel Cort <joel_cort@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         Joel Cort <joel_cort@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: How many Vanagons were sold in Russia?
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Hi,
I went to Moscow for a week, a few years back.  What a great place.  It reminded me of New York City and Paris.

I saw a few Vanagons, a few EVs and lots of new T5.  My hotel had a T5 Syncro transporter as the limo to drive people around. I even saw an old splitty still being used as a delivery van.  There was a EV armored to be a brinks truck transporting money.  I even captured a Vanagon Syncro transporter right in town.  Everyone must of thought that I was a spy taking random pictures of cars driving by.

Throughout the rest of Europe every one runs on Diesel fuel.  Not in Russia all the cars were gasoline powered just like in the US.  Lots of Audi A8s and BMW 7x along with the Mercedes....like all the cars here.  Not as many japonese cars though.

Now what was really neat was the Harley Davidson dealer / yard / party house.

Let me know and I will find the pictures if interested.

Hey I also went to India that year and saw one lonely old VW bug amongst the jitneys, scooters, elephants and cows.  The bug was still on the road and moving along.
 Happy Camping,
Joel Cort
Rochester NY 


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From: Andrew Grebneff <goose1047@GMAIL.COM>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Sent: Sun, February 28, 2010 6:47:33 PM
Subject: Re: How many Vanagons were sold in Russia?

I went to Moscow and Tula Russia a few years ago.  I don't recall seeing
many Vanagons.  I did see a lot of the UAZ Soviet vans.  To me they look a
lot like the bay window busses.

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> http://www.flickr.com/photos/38874331@N00/3820640965/


Urk... looks like a Split mated with a Commer.

There were Split lookalikes made in East Germany and India... even had the
waistline bulge.

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Regards
Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin
New Zealand
Fossil preparator
Mollusc, Toyota & VW van fan