I was sifting the list messages and listening to the NPR piece last night
while half-monitoring the Olympics in the other room when my wife freaks out
and says "come look -- come look!" and it was a VW ad about their designers
and engineers continually tweaking their products and it had these cool
high-tech-looking graphics of Beetles morphing through evolutions of the
designs, then of vans, then Rabbits to Golfs, etc.

I missed the Vanagon part, but the important point is that my wife is now
getting excited by the mere mention of Vanagons.

BTW, we passed a mid-to-late 80s Vanagon for sale in our travels this
weekend, sitting in a yard in Lincolnville in Midcoast Maine with icicles
hanging from the bumpers. Not a daily driver (probably) and maybe cheap,
though it looked to be in good shape. Anyone interested could p-mail me and
I'll tell you how to find it.

Ed Carroll

----- Original Message -----
From: Donald Baxter <onanov@MINDSPRING.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 3:54 AM
Subject: VW Bus in Advertising...

> I was visiting my parents in Atlanta this past week and ran across this
> ad in a 1982 magazine.  Depicts a late 70s Westy doing what they do best
> (holding up traffic).
>
> http://www.mindspring.com/~onanov/bus-cabot-trail.jpg
>
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