I don't think that's the case, though I can generalize that Los angeleans
tend to be pretty insular, and won't wave to their mothers.  Vanagons are
pretty common in SF and Seattle, so we aren't as unusual as elsewhere.

In Phoenix, we generally get a wave, and, as I recall, we've gotten pretty
friendly reactions just about anywhere else.

Karl Wolz

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Borghese" <vanagon@groupstudy.com>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 6:44 AM
Subject: Re: Van reactions

> I think it might be an east-coast vs west-coast thing.  On the east we
> always wave when another VW passes.  But this summer I drove out to the
west
> coast on vacation and noticed nobody was waving.  In fact, if you were to
> wave, they would look at you strange.
>
> Paul
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: ""Patrick Callaghan Jr."" <patcal@qwest.net>
> Newsgroups: groupstudy.vanagon
> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 9:29 AM
> Subject: Re: Van reactions
>
>
> > Since I bought my first Vanagon westy last October I have been waved at
> > once.  This weekend a old dude on a late bay waved & smiled.  Other then
> > that I never get waved to.  When I had bay windows I was always getting
> > waved to.  All this no-waving my damage my already warped mind. :)
> >
> >
> > Pat Callaghan
> > 82 Westy
> > Portland, OR.
> > http://www.users.qwest.net/~patcal
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "David Beierl" <dbeierl@attglobal.net>
> > To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> > Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 6:04 AM
> > Subject: Re: Van reactions
> >
> >
> > > At 08:35 AM 4/30/2001, Gary Stearns wrote:
> > > >Wow.  We always get the opposite reaction.  Just yesterday a kid in a
> BMW
> > > >328 passed me at an intersection and gave a big smile and thumbs up.
> > When
> > > >we're on the highway it's entertaining to watch people's reactions.
> Most
> > > >will smile or nod approvingly.  Kids will point and try to get
everyone
> > > >else in the car too look.  A few
> > >
> > > A while ago someone said that Westy people seemed snooty and didn't
wave
> > to
> > > them -- my experience (driving a Westy) is the opposite, that
non-Westy
> > > people are considerably less likely to wave.  Is it possible that each
> > > sub-population preferentially waves to its own members?  I'm quite
> > > indiscriminate myself, I'm so pleased when I see one at all...
> > >
> > > d
> > >
> > >
> > > David Beierl - Providence, RI
> > >   http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
> > > '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
> > > '85 GL "Poor Relation"
> > >
> >