Date:         Mon, 11 Sep 1995 15:35:37 MST
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         "Mike White" <MIKE.WHITE@law.utah.edu>
Subject:      Re: 7 door panel...

> Thom:
> 
> The term "7-door panel" Bus is actually something I picked up from Mr. VanBondo.
> Albeit I probably mis-quoted the afore-mentioned sir.  7-door panel refers to the
> double cargo-door panel Busses.  The driver and passenger front doors count as
> two, the cargo doors on the right and left side of the Bus count as four more
> while the rear acces hatch counts for one more for a total of 7 doors.  It is
> really kinda cool to have all of the doors open.  I do think that I made a mistake
> in an earlier thread by calling it a walk-thru panel.  I initially thought that
> this referred to the fact that you could "walk through" the Bus with all of the
> cargo doors open.  Upon logical reflection, I think the walk-thru panels had the
> two front seats instead of the bench seat.  I am pretty sure this is right because
> when someone talks about a walk-thru Kombi I know they are referring to the two
> front seats.  Surely the same logic applies to the panels.... I apologize to the
> list for rookie remark... I am learning though!

I've always heard the term "jump-through" used to describe a bus with 
double cargo-doors, and as you said, "walk-though" to describe a bus 
with two separate seats.

 - Mike White 

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