Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 11:50:57 -0800
Reply-To: Roland <syncronicity1@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Roland <syncronicity1@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Friday: Is it a Van or what?
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In response to "The original SUV?" David wrote: "Pleh."
LOL, I like this response, should be very useful. For example when my wife
asks "Hey honey, I am going to watch Glen Beck, would you like to join me?"
Pleh
Roland
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 11:05 AM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote:
> Dear Roland,
>
> My opinion -
>
> At 01:13 PM 2/4/2011, Roland wrote:
>
>> What is the generic label? I've heard our vehicles called......
>>
>> Van
>>
>
> Quick and dirty yes.
>
> Bus
>>
>
> Sorta-kinda but that's mostly reserved for the T2s I think.
>
> Camper
>>
>
> Some of them. But we hardly ever use the word, I think.
>
> Truck
>>
>
> In many ways it is - VW carefully tread the line of US regulations at
> least, of calling it a car for some purposes and a truck for others.
>
> Rig
>>
>
> I never would, but I'm not sure I'd call anything except a radio a rig.
>
> Kombi
>>
>
> Isn't that a VW name for a specific configuration of German T3?
>
> Bulli
>>
>
> That's German too, someone here will know about it.
>
> The original SUV
>>
>
> Pleh.
>
> Others?
>>
>
> I often call it a beast. Usually in a good way.
>
>
> Every pickup truck I see is clearly a pickup truck.
>>
>
> Huh. Ever see an Escalade pickup? Or a Torino?
>
>
> So what are we? The ultimate utility vehicle, can do anything, adapts
>> to any mission, a chameleon. Are we in a class by ourselves? What is
>> our category and label?
>>
>
> Well, for a start we're in at least two classes, regular and Syncro. Or
> maybe a class and a superclass. One of the things I always thought about my
> '84 Westy, even when it was having troubles, was *willing.* Chameleon I
> don't like. We're always sturdy, unprepossessing, capable, adaptable,
> useful. Probably brave, clean and reverent as well. But if we weren't in a
> class by ourselves, why would we put up with us? I'm not a Microbus guy,
> although I admired them when they were what was available. I'm certainly
> not a VW guy. I'm not a T4 guy and although I've never seen a T5 I doubt if
> I'm one of them either. I might be a Sprinter guy if I had a chance to be,
> dunno. Ditto LT, UniMog, various other things. But I'm definitely a
> Vanagon guy. What is love? I don't know.* What does my beloved look like?
> I don't know.
>
> *Well, I sorta kinda think I do, but not in this context. It's a
> continuing act of will, something else entirely.
>
> Yours,
> David
>
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