Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 18:43:36 -0500
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From: Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject: Re: Vanagons are too cool?
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I have the same experience, though not being in a caravan, I don't get the photographic response. But people do like them, express interest, and want to talk about them. Many of the folks who do are baby boomer age or a little older, but young ones too. People seem to like VW vans, though commonly they consider them all to be "buses." For that matter, I often refer to mine as a bus. Now, I am not a VW fan particularly. For me, it is about the camping utility of the Campmobile, and not about the VW part. But, lots of people like them, though most of those people are (like me, really) not competent to do all the required maintenance themselves.
I think it is the romance they attach to the van.
mcneely
---- mark drillock <mdrillock@COX.NET> wrote:
> On our recent trip to Baja with 10 vans something happened that makes me
> wonder. Everywhere we went people waved, gave thumbs up, or flashed
> peace signs. I understand that seeing 10 vans in a row is unusual and
> would provoke some responses but this also happened repeatedly when
> there was only my van or a couple around. Why or how did Vanagons get to
> be considered so cool? Even to Mexicans?
>
> People of all ages responded to our vans. Maybe more teenage girls than
> any other demographic but all demographics were involved. In one town a
> Mexican man came up to me and started asking questions. Soon he pointed
> to his teenage son waiting in their vehicle and said the son had been
> asking about finding one for a while.
>
> At one long stretch of desert a car went speeding past our caravan as we
> drove at a more cautious rate. The car pulled off way ahead and the guy
> got out with a camera to take photos or video as we all passed. This
> happened again on a different day and that guy went far enough ahead
> that he had time to set up a tripod in a curved section before we got there.
>
> All this makes me chuckle but it also makes me slightly nervous. I need
> to park my vans unattended, sometimes for long periods. Are they now
> cool enough to steal?
>
> Mark
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David McNeely
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