Date:         Sun, 6 Feb 2011 20:38:58 -0600
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From:         Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject:      Re: Friday: Is it a Van or what?
Comments: To: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
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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

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David McNeely