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• Re: Any clever nicknames?
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sat, 12 Oct 2002 17:20:34 -0500
  ...Any clever nicknames? > > > > > > Greetings all, > > > > It's come time to name my '91 dark blue Westy. I threw the naming > > effort open to my...
• Re: RE- nicknames for generatio
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 6 Oct 1994 10:53:56 -0400 (EDT)
  > In keeping with the "B" theme (Bulli, Bus/Bread-loaf/Bay-Window, Brick) > I'd like to toss out Barn, as in, "as big...
• Re: nicknames for the generations
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 4 Oct 94 10:14:09 MDT
  > J. Walker writes: > > > > so what does a Eurovan look like? well, it ain't a loaf of bread. it ain't > > a brick. it...
• Pooh gets there and back!
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 28 Apr 1998 16:39:46 +0100
  ...your 'van, hadn't thought about naming mine at all! What other nicknames does everyone have for their various modes of 'leisure accommodation'? Angie
• what's in a name?
  Historical mailing list - Hector Zapata
  Fri, 11 Jan 2002 17:59:00 -0800
  Since today is Friday, I can say that if anyone is interested, I have a book that has the meanings, origins and even nicknames...
• Registry of Vanagon Nicknames -- whaat happen?
  Historical mailing list - Horace K. Sawyer
  Fri, 18 May 2001 23:01:11 -0400
  ...Anyone thought about compiling the nicknames, >along with a short story behind it? >> > >No, thank God. LOL ! heh heh I can almost see how...
• Re: what do "bulli" and "samba" mean...
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 21 Feb 2004 11:32:52 EST
  ...words mean in relation to our vans? > thanks > jason > > they are nicknames for buses. "bulli" is the german nickname for the vw bus, and...
• Re: Vehicle Names
  Historical mailing list - joel walker
  Wed, 1 Oct 2008 17:30:06 -0500
  ...somehow the hondas just don't seem to lend themselves to nicknames ... i don't know why. so ... is it only vw buses? or...
• Re: nicknames for the generations
  Historical mailing list - Steve Johnson
  Tue, 4 Oct 94 10:58:32 PDT
  So jackr@starfleet.scs.ag.gov says: > > > > Rounded? Tall? Short nose? Sounds like Stimpy! > > > > -David > > Uh uh. Sounds more like like a whale to...
• Re: nicknames for generations: THE answer!!! :)
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 4 Oct 1994 20:03:32 -0500 (CDT)
  >so ... what distinguishes the fourth generation from the others? it PULLS!!! >so it's a Puller. or Pulley. or Pulli. :) But Pulli is also...
• Re: nicknames for the generations
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 4 Oct 94 13:31:32 MDT
  > anyhoo, i've been busying my widdle bwain about this (slow day at flat rock) > and the closest thing i can think of that...
• Re: Any clever nicknames?
  Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
  Sun, 13 Oct 2002 10:24:37 -0600
  Chris...are you married? How's she like that? teasing ;>) Bob i nicknamed my vanagon: "the vanagon" i nicknamed my cat : "the cat" i...
• Re: nicknames for the generations
  Historical mailing list - David Schwarze
  Tue, 4 Oct 94 9:03:48 PDT
  J. Walker writes: > > so what does a Eurovan look like? well, it ain't a loaf of bread. it ain't > a brick. it...
• Re: nicknames for the generations
  Historical mailing list - Jonathan Dove - VAX Master
  Tue, 4 Oct 1994 12:24:24 -0400 (EDT)
  >From: "J. Walker" <JWALKER@ua1vm.ua.edu> > so what does a Eurovan look like? well, it ain't a loaf of bread. it ain...
• Re: nicknames for the generations
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 5 Oct 94 8:55:42 EDT
  What is the non-NA name for it? Don't they still use the term Transporter or some such in Europe and elswhere (Brazil...
• Any clever nicknames?
  Historical mailing list - Mark Belanger
  Sat, 12 Oct 2002 12:44:29 -0700
  Greetings all, It's come time to name my '91 dark blue Westy. I threw the naming effort open to my friends and the...
• Re: Any clever nicknames?
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Sun, 13 Oct 2002 16:43:31 -0700
  ...Any clever nicknames? Hey Mark. Check the archives for last summer. The was a reference to a web site that listed hundreds of names...
• Re: Pronounciation of Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
  Mon, 29 May 2000 01:54:25 +0200
  ...They mostly say Bulli! Often heard are also Transporter and Caravelle, even Syncro and Carat are known nicknames of this bewandered vehicle! Vanagon are...
• Re: Any clever nicknames?
  Historical mailing list - dave
  Sat, 12 Oct 2002 14:05:30 -0700
  My friend coined my goldie box "Goldie II" or "G2", since he has the exact same year, make, model and color. His of course...
• Re: "A Volkswagen expert on your iPhone"
  Historical mailing list - Geo & Kathleen Hahn
  Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:44:03 -0700
  ...Geo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark A Kippert" <vanagon@KIPPERT.COM> They also refer to the three generations of "widely recognized nicknames", the 'Splitties', 'Bay...
• Re: RE- nicknames for generatio
  Historical mailing list - J. Walker
  Thu, 06 Oct 94 10:51:01 CDT
  On Thu, 6 Oct 94 09:55:30 CDT Jerry Huff said: >> In keeping with the "B" theme (Bulli, Bus/Bread-loaf/Bay-Window...
• Re: Any clever nicknames?
  Historical mailing list - Mark Belanger
  Sun, 13 Oct 2002 22:04:53 -0700
  Mark Belanger wrote: > Anyway, it got me wondering what other people have dubbed their > vehicles. So let's hear it. What have you named...
• Re: Any clever nicknames?
  Historical mailing list - Anthony Polson
  Sun, 13 Oct 2002 15:35:05 +0100
  ...Any clever nicknames? > >Greetings all, > >It's come time to name my '91 dark blue Westy. I threw the naming >effort open to my...
• Re: Any clever nicknames?
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
  Sat, 12 Oct 2002 17:54:22 -0300
  My son christened our van: The Shaggen Waggen (or some such spelling), But the I prefer: The Burgundy Beast, The front Licence plate says...
• Re: Any clever nicknames?
  Historical mailing list - Bill Gibson
  Sat, 12 Oct 2002 22:21:40 -0700
  Twinkie. White top, cream yellow body 84 Westy Camper. But, my wife just told me she has secretly been calling it the Banana Slug...
• Re: Bentley
  Historical mailing list - Benjamin Tan
  Thu, 17 May 2001 15:21:19 EDT
  ...You're missing a couple more nicknames for that thick book. Some of people call it "The Bible" and others, that "Big Green Doorstop...
• Re: Any clever nicknames?
  Historical mailing list - Donna Stewart
  Mon, 14 Oct 2002 08:11:02 -0700
  1987 Wolfsburg - LolaLola 1990 Vanagon - Blue Angel 1960 Double Cab - Lili Marlene >>> Mark Belanger <belanger@FLUID.COM> 10/12/02 12:44PM >>> Greetings all...
• Re: nicknames for the generations
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 5 Oct 94 20:26:26 EDT
  RGOLEN@umassd.edu writes: > > > David asks for the "european" model names for the EuroVan... > > The Delivery Van/Pick up truck versions are Transporters > > The...
• Re: Any clever (i.e., Nauseous) nicknames?
  Historical mailing list - George Goff
  Sun, 13 Oct 2002 11:27:32 EDT
  In a message dated 10/12/02 3:48:11 PM, belanger@FLUID.COM writes: << What have you named your vans? >> This is so...
• Re: Joel's Database...
  Historical mailing list - Gary Clayton
  Thu, 13 Jul 1995 15:16:13 -0400 (EDT)
  ...poor wimpy > little ascii flat-file "database" what uses crappy ibm Nicknames files?? > > oh, sure, YOU don't care about MY problems!!!! it's...
• Re: nicknames for the generations
  Historical mailing list - Drew Farenwald
  Wed, 5 Oct 94 6:15:12 EDT
  >From: Steve Johnson <sjohnson@pcocd2.intel.com> > Davids email address (starfleet) made me think of Star Trek, which made me > think of a "shuttle...
• Re: Any clever nicknames?
  Historical mailing list - Mike Miller
  Sat, 12 Oct 2002 17:42:01 -0700
  Mostly call it things that would get me kicked off this list, and any other list in the world. Mike On 10/12/02...
• Any clever nicknames?
  Historical mailing list - Stu Schwartz
  Sat, 12 Oct 2002 22:20:44 -0400
  We also have a dark blue '91...her name is Miss Magic..could be for magic bus or for Little Miss Magic... --peace-- stu...
• Re: Any clever nicknames?
  Historical mailing list - James
  Sun, 13 Oct 2002 00:11:15 -0700
  The Red Shed (90 Vanagon, tornado red). Not to be confused w/ the Red Sled (92 GTI, tornado red). Clearly distinguishable from the Blue...
• Re: Any clever nicknames?
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Sat, 12 Oct 2002 21:21:48 -0700
  My '84 GL is named "Mongo". He used to have a lot of problems with the worst being overheating. I ended up replacing one...
• Re: nicknames for the generations
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Tue, 4 Oct 1994 09:07:24 -0700 (PDT)
  On Tue, 4 Oct 1994, J. Walker wrote: > so we have to come up with a phrase/word/nickname that is DESCRIPTIVE of the...
• nicknames for generations: THE answer!!! :)
  Historical mailing list - J. Walker
  Tue, 04 Oct 94 19:47:20 CDT
  ok, ok. i got it!! :) the first generation was called Bulli (which had something to do with a german slang name for an ox...
• Re: Any clever nicknames?
  Historical mailing list - van man
  Mon, 14 Oct 2002 14:27:35 -0700
  Rastafalia --- Donna Stewart <DStewart@CHRM.COM> wrote: > 1987 Wolfsburg - LolaLola > 1990 Vanagon - Blue Angel > 1960 Double Cab - Lili Marlene > > >>> Mark Belanger <belanger@FLUID.COM...
• Re: Any clever nicknames?
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Sun, 13 Oct 2002 13:23:14 -0500
  Don't you wish that they would all fall off at the same time like in a Max Senate movie?. You know, like one...
• Re: Any clever nicknames?
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Sun, 13 Oct 2002 13:12:52 -0500
  I'm looking forward to your first divorce. It gets you through the names in the alphabet rather quickly when you add "the X...
• Re: Any clever nicknames?
  Historical mailing list - Chris Smith
  Mon, 14 Oct 2002 10:19:24 -0500
  I had to post.. it may be late but since I've been mentioned already, here it goes.. Our '82 Aswaun Brown (baby bottom...
• Re: Any clever nicknames?
  Historical mailing list - Tracey
  Sat, 12 Oct 2002 22:36:46 -0400
  We are sailors and my husband builds boats, so we named our '85 Westy "landschiff" which is German for land-ship. Our '78 Transporter...
• Re: Any clever nicknames?
  Historical mailing list - Mike Miller
  Sat, 12 Oct 2002 17:46:27 -0700
  If you each had measles would you call it pair a dice? Sorry. It's almost Friday somewhere isn't it? Mike On 10...
• Re: Any clever nicknames?
  Historical mailing list - DaBomb
  Sat, 12 Oct 2002 13:35:24 -0700
  on 10/12/02 12:44, Mark Belanger at belanger@FLUID.COM wrote: > Anyway, it got me wondering what other people have dubbed their...
• Re: Any clever nicknames?
  Historical mailing list - Roger VanTill
  Sat, 12 Oct 2002 17:05:33 EDT
  My 85 Westy was "Bulwinkle". When I got married my wife got me this small bronze moose head to mount on the front of...
• OT: Delete before Reading Re: what's in a name?
  Historical mailing list - Dave Baker
  Fri, 11 Jan 2002 17:47:09 -0600
  ...I have a book > that has the meanings, origins and even nicknames. So, I'll start with my > van's name, Ursula-(Latin) "little...
• Re: clever nicknames
  Historical mailing list - Jim Morgan
  Sat, 12 Oct 2002 22:23:29 EDT
  When i first got my 86gl , the wife commented that it looks like our bread box. The name stuck except i use the german...
• Re: Any clever nicknames?
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Sat, 12 Oct 2002 15:46:36 -0500
  I named my 87 Waser Boxer; Puddles. I call my 83 Westy with the air cooled; Spot. I call my 66 Splittie Westy; For...
• Re: nicknames for generations: THE answer!!! :)
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 5 Oct 94 10:32:06 EDT
  > > ok, ok. i got it!! :) > > the first generation was called Bulli (which had something to do with a > german slang name for an ox...
• Re: Thread hijacking not Hijacking thread
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Fri, 2 Apr 2010 18:37:43 -0700
  ...My Vanagons do get nicknames. ..... > Now leave my hijack thread alone!?!?@&$");- No way man! > Ps: my 2wd Canadian Double cab is just called 'the...
• Re: Joel's Database...
  Historical mailing list - Clark Langstraat
  Thu, 13 Jul 1995 16:07:05 -0400 (EDT)
  ...poor wimpy > > little ascii flat-file "database" what uses crappy ibm Nicknames files?? > > > > oh, sure, YOU don't care about MY problems!!!! it's...
• Hey! Wait a second...
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 5 Oct 1994 14:10:52 -0700 (MST)
  ...David Schwarze <schwarze@io.nosc.mil> >To: vanagon@lenti >Subject: Re: nicknames for the generations >Message-ID: <199410041603.JAA28236@io.nosc.mil> > >J. Walker...
• Re: nicknames for the generations
  Historical mailing list - J. Walker
  Tue, 04 Oct 94 14:06:47 CDT
  On Tue, 4 Oct 94 13:18:28 CDT it was said: >How about a dustbuster? > - martha rubin nah. that's what you call...
• Re: OT: Delete before Reading Re: what's in a name?
  Historical mailing list - mike miller
  Fri, 11 Jan 2002 15:56:08 -0800
  ...I have a > book >> that has the meanings, origins and even nicknames. So, I'll start with my >> van's name, Ursula-(Latin) "little...
• Re: Friday: Is it a Van or what?
  Historical mailing list - Joe T.
  Fri, 4 Feb 2011 14:31:20 -0700
  ...T1=Splitty T2=Bay T3=Brick T4/T5=Not appreciated enough to warrant any endearing nicknames. I would say Minivan, but they're built...
• Re: Any clever nicknames? No Baby Yet!!!!!!!!
  Historical mailing list - Julianna Thoennes
  Mon, 14 Oct 2002 18:13:41 -0700
  Yikes! No Baby yet!!!!!!!!!!! I am sooooooooo ready for him to come!!!!!! I keep having those lovely Brackston Hicks contractions though. Uhgggg : ) My brother...
• Re: How to tighten vent wing
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Fri, 8 Aug 2014 14:25:45 -0500
  ...Mine is a 1991 Volkswagen Vanagon GL Campmobile, known as a Westy to those who like nicknames. Is the window supposed to open beyond...
• Re: Greetings/my Van/'87 coolant
  Historical mailing list - TJ Hannink
  Sat, 15 May 2004 09:33:21 -0700
  ...Any number of nicknames for that particular model are out there, pick one you like. I started a Yahoo!Group for this particular model...
• Re: Joel's Database...
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Thu, 13 Jul 95 10:10:44 CDT
  ...poor wimpy little ascii flat-file "database" what uses crappy ibm Nicknames files?? oh, sure, YOU don't care about MY problems!!!! it's...
• Re: nicknames for the generations
  Historical mailing list - sstones
  Tue, 4 Oct 1994 16:10:28 -0400 (EDT)
  On Tue, 4 Oct 1994, J. Walker wrote: > On Tue, 4 Oct 94 09:56:06 CDT John Ritchie said: > >... Also, I propose that...