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Date:         Fri, 4 Feb 2011 10:52:38 -0800
Reply-To:     Loren Busch <starwagen@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Loren Busch <starwagen@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Friday: Is it a Van or what?
In-Reply-To:  <AANLkTim1Bs+Zp3usDV5PYCp2iyRvjZR_TChUtHsB0Oup@mail.gmail.com>
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RE: What is 'It'? You are going to get a lot of responses to you question and they are going to vary a lot. But having come into the VW community (alternate spelling: Cult) late in life I've listened to a lot of VW people talk about their vehicles in many different terms. I've arrived at a couple of labels that seem to be appropriate. For the early VW Transporters, they are Buses. They have earned that distinct and venerable title. If differentiating within various versions from over the years 'Splittie' or 'Bay' pins them down a little tighter as to the vintage. Then adding 'Camper' or Westy or Westfalia further defines things. For the Vanagon I've adopted the generic 'Van', not Bus. I think Bus should be reserved for the pre Vanagon VW Transporters. BTW, Transporter is the more official VW label for the Buses, Vanagons, Eurovans, etc. As for the Eurovans they are just that, Eurovan or Eurovan Camper when I talk about them. And then there is the often confused designations of 'Transporter' and 'Type'. For VW all Buses and their descendent's are 'Type 2' or Transporters. But within the Transporter line there are T2s ( 'Transporter 2's' , Buses), T3s (Vanagons), T4s (Eurovans) and now the T5. And to further confuse everything the Vanagon name was only used in North America, VW put other labels on the Transporter 3 in other parts of the world. And then in the UK, what we call the Vanagon is often referred to as a T25 after the '25' in the VIN number. Is their a 'Right Way' to refer to our Vanagons? I don't think so except maybe as 'My Money Pit'.


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