I get the "thumbs up" and polite drivers with my '79, but also get the crappy treatment when I drive the '90 Westy, or basically I am too slow. Jon On 11/23/2014 4:21 PM, J Stewart wrote: > Not so with my Vanagon, everyone loves it and recognizes it as a VW Bus/camper, young kids included. Everyone is usually surprised when I tell them it's a 1985 model, always saying they didn't know they were still made in 1985. Jeff > > ----- Original Message ----- > >> oh yes... >> other drivers and truckers used to toot their horn to say Hi when I drive >> my Bay... >> not anymore when I drive my vanagon, never... they blast their horn to get >> me out of their way because I am slow... >> I would say that vanagon had lost the "cachet" - and also the tolerance of >> other drivers on the freeways.... |
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