Date:         Fri, 20 Nov 1998 16:45:59 +0000
Reply-To:     Sam Scholten <scholten1@MARSHALL.EDU>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Sam Scholten <scholten1@MARSHALL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Friday Frivolity: "Bus" vs. "Van"
Comments: To: Chris Paquette <cp@IX.NETCOM.COM>
Comments: cc: vanagon@VANAGON.COM
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Certainly, a Vanagon is a bus- especially an '80-'85, with those
headlights giving you that unassuming stare that the loaf always did-
but how can you dis the Chevy van? That ride was nothing but pure,
unbridled kitsch! With 2-tone shag carpet on the dash, floor, walls, and
ceiling (all of which reeks of stale cheeba), tiny tinted bubble/diamond
quarter windows in the back, a bean bag or three, and a bumpin' system
that cost $1000 about 15 years ago, all the females are yours! How can
you lose? :-)

You can dis the Dodge Caravan until you render it a new bung hole, but
lay off the ('79) Chevy Van!

Sam

Chris Paquette wrote:
>
> I dislike referring to my '88 Westie as a "van" - I prefer to call it a
> "bus".  For some reason, "bus" has a better karmic feeling to it.  To me,
> the word "van" conjures up images of an old Chevy cargo van with a broken
> 8-track player, duct tape over the windows and a hostage in the back.
>
> Definitely a "bus" man, myself.  You?