Date:         Thu, 19 Jul 2012 11:56:12 -0400
Reply-To:     Kim Brennan <kimbrennan@MAC.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Kim Brennan <kimbrennan@MAC.COM>
Subject:      Re: What's a Vanagon "Sport"?
Comments: To: JRodgers <jrodgers113@GMAIL.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <50081615.5040108@gmail.com>
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In a lot of the rest of the world, the vehicles we in the US know of as "Vanagon" or Bay Window, or Splittie, have been known as "Transporters" and were so labeled by the factory.

I've, in fact, got a couple of the VW "Transporter" emblems (just never put them on any of my fleet.)

On Jul 19, 2012, at 10:13 AM, JRodgers wrote:

> Hey, I've a 7 passenger '88 Vanagon that has "Transporter" on the back
> of it. It's in the same raised plastic lettering that is on the back of
> my other 88 Vanagon with lettering says "Vanagon GL". Maybe there are
> Vanagon "Transporter's" but I can't recall having ever seen one that had
> that label.
>
> My "Transporter" also has the VW logo recessed into the rear hatch.
> Haven't seen that either. Definitely not surface mounted.
>
> Do applied labels a vehicle make?
>
> John
>
> On 7/18/2012 10:37 PM, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
>> There's one parked down the street. Looks to be the same year as my '84,
>> same ivory paint, Westfalia top, peering through the windows the inside
>> looks pretty much like mine. Near as I can tell, the only difference
>> between it an mine are spiffy brown and orange horizontal paint stripes
>> and the word "Sport" on the sides.
>>
>> --
>> Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
>> 1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
>> Bend, Ore.
>>