Vanagon EuroVan
Previous messageNext messagePrevious in topicNext in topicPrevious by same authorNext by same authorPrevious page (August 1994)Back to main VANAGON pageJoin or leave VANAGON (or change settings)ReplyPost a new messageSearchProportional fontNon-proportional font
Date:         Thu, 25 Aug 94 15:50:49 CDT
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Joel Walker <JWALKER@ua1vm.ua.edu>
Subject:      Re: Vanagon L

On Thu, 25 Aug 94 13:47:38 CDT William R. Kennedy, NJIT CIAT, 201-596-5648 said:
>I think Joel's taxonomy is for the later years, or else I have the wrong badge
>on the back.  My 1981 thinks it's a Vanagon L, but it has chrome bumpers,
>cloth seats, carpeting, and originally a black pinstripe at the beltline
>between elfenbein and orange.  Now it's elfenbein (or as close as Maaco could
>get on a bad day) all over.
>If I remember right, L was as good as it got in the first two years of Vanagon.
>Anybody else's 80 or 81 L as "loaded" as mine?  L also means squeezable brown
>shift knob, instead of black plastic, right


whoops! bill's right. for the 80-8?, the L was the top of the line, with cloth
and carpet and chrome. anybody know when the GL started showing up? 83 water-
cools?


joel
(who tends to think in terms of just a few years ago ... or not at all)
Back to: Top of message | Previous page | Main VANAGON page

Please note - During the past 17 years of operation, several gigabytes of Vanagon mail messages have been archived. Searching the entire collection will take up to five minutes to complete. Please be patient!

Return to the archives @ gerry.vanagon.com

The vanagon mailing list archives are copyright (c) 1994-2011, and may not be reproduced without the express written permission of the list administrators. Posting messages to this mailing list grants a license to the mailing list administrators to reproduce the message in a compilation, either printed or electronic. All compilations will be not-for-profit, with any excess proceeds going to the Vanagon mailing list.

Any profits from list compilations go exclusively towards the management and operation of the Vanagon mailing list and vanagon mailing list web site.