Debbie Walters wrote:

> In Florida I've been honked at and flashed at with headlights by other
> vanagons (I've only seen 2), waved at enthusiastically by a whole family in
> a Eurovan, and honked and waved at by a guy in a Chevy truck (naw, it wasn't
> 'cause I'm so cute), but have found that the people in the older busses
> don't even notice my Westy - except for the one couple that was checking it
> out in a parking lot (my friend warned me that he saw someone  loitering
> around my van as he was coming in the restaurant).  I knew immediately that
> it had to be the owners of the old camper bus that I had purposely parked
> near and checked out myself!
>
> deb

Be careful when you do that - I remember a thread about this from a few years ago where someone had parked their Westy next to a
similar one at a restaurant, as a friendly gesture.

When they came back to their van, a few things like hubcaps, fridge flu cover, water tank cap were missing...

Robin
90 Vanagon TD Atlantic
never parks next to another Westy, mine's too nice!