About vanagon.com
vanagon.com preserves the Vanagon & EuroVan mailing list, a community that has traded repair advice, trip reports, and technical wisdom since 1994. When the original LISTSERV archive at gerry.vanagon.com became fragile and hard to search, we began restoring captured material here alongside a modern, searchable forum so the conversation can keep going. Restoration is ongoing: indexed records, available message bodies and verified original captures are distinct. See preservation status for recorded progress and known gaps.
What's here
- 513,495 indexed message records across 2,731 recorded archive periods (1994–2026). Browse the available restored material at /archives.
- Search available indexed archive text at /archives/search.
- A living forum for new discussion, open to anyone with a free account.
- Old
gerry.vanagon.comandcgi-bin/wa.exelinks keep working — they redirect permanently to their equivalent page here.
Attribution & copyright
Archived messages are the work of their original authors. Original copyright notices and credits are retained where captured. We preserve this material as community history for reference and research; we do not claim authorship of archived content. If you are the author of a message archived here and would like it corrected or removed, contact us using the details below.
Openness & automation
The archive is built to be machine-readable as well as human-readable: see sitemap.xml, rss.xml, and llms.txt for structured access, and our API docs for programmatic access.
Contact
Questions, corrections, or takedown requests: reach the maintainers through the forum or see our privacy policy and terms for more detail on how the site is run.
Source freshness
- VanAgain: last successful check UTC · recent retrieval failed; stored updates may be stale
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- Gerry community: last successful check UTC
- TheSamba: Bay Window Bus: last successful check UTC
- TheSamba: EuroVan: last successful check UTC
- TheSamba: Split Bus: last successful check UTC
- TheSamba: Split Bus - Barndoor: last successful check UTC
- TheSamba: Vanagon: last successful check UTC