Plenty of us call ours a bus. With me, it is usually when I am speaking to an acquaintance whom I've not seen in a long time, and I tell him, "Hey, I bought an old VW Bus -- a camper." then I usually tell him I haven' painted the flowers on the sides yet. mcneely ---- Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > I always thought that Vanagon might be an attempt by VW as the name of > shape, like hexagon, pentagon or polygon. > > Let's hope they will never become, well, gon. > > They would have done better with bus, though. When I had splitties and > my loaf, the were buses. I would have been happy to continue the > tradition by calling my Vanagons that, but VW had to get all clever on > us. > > Jim -- David McNeely |
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