Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:08:00 -0700
Reply-To: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: What is a Vanagon, according to The Samba?
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Thanks, Marius. That "Model" thing has stumped me many times when
searching for parts on the samba. Never can find Vanagons there.
--
Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
Bend, Ore.
1984 Westfalia. A poor but proud people.
1971 "Ladybug"-brand utility trailer ca. 1972 from a defunct company in
San Clemente, Calif., now repurposed as The Westrailia.
Sent from my kitchen.
On 08/24/2011 04:05 PM, Marius Strom wrote:
> Vehicles - Type 2/Bus - Vanagon/Eurovan in the "Ad Section" just below that. I don't think the Model thing is used anywhere, so I'd just go with Water Cooled VW.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rocket J Squirrel [mailto:camping.elliott@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 4:00 PM
> To: Marius Strom
> Cc: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: What is a Vanagon, according to The Samba?
>
> Well, /that/ doesn't help.
>
> Go to<http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/add.php> and make as though you are going to sell a van. Find the "Model" field and hit the dropdown box.
>
> Which of the models there are our Vanagons?
>
> --
> Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
> Bend, Ore.
> 1984 Westfalia. A poor but proud people.
> 1971 "Ladybug"-brand utility trailer ca. 1972 from a defunct company in San Clemente, Calif., now repurposed as The Westrailia.
>
> Sent from my kitchen.
>
> On 08/24/2011 03:50 PM, Marius Strom wrote:
>> A Type 2 T3.
>>
>> FWIW, the whole "bus or not" argument is dumb, IMHO. The early
>> European name for the Type 2 T3 was Bus before they renamed it to
>> Transporter:
>> http://cgi.ebay.de/5-288-Programm-VW-Transporter-Bus-T3-Modelle-1987-/
>> 380360193327?pt=Kataloge_Prospekte&hash=item588f3bf52f
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On
>> Behalf Of Rocket J Squirrel
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 2:57 PM
>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>> Subject: What is a Vanagon, according to The Samba?
>>
>> It's not a bus. Is it a Type 3 "Other"? A "Watercooled VW"?
>>
>> --
>> Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
>> Bend, Ore.
>> 1984 Westfalia. A poor but proud people.
>> 1971 "Ladybug"-brand utility trailer ca. 1972 from a defunct company in San Clemente, Calif., now repurposed as The Westrailia.
>>
>> Sent from my kitchen.
>>
>
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