Hi Mark,

Mine's called "Vera Vanagon".

That might not sound clever to you, but she lives in the UK where the
1980-91 VW minivans were called either "Transporters" or "Caravelles" with
the occasional "Bus" or "Kamper".  VW never sold them in the UK market as
Vanagons, and neither did we ever get a Westfalia with the steering wheel on
the right (wrong?) side, although a few used examples have been imported
privately from Germany.

Vera is the name of someone I used to know who may have had her faults, but
was as true and reliable a friend as anyone I could ever wish to meet.  Alas
Vera passed away some years ago.  I could not think of a name that was more
apt to describe my 1984 Reimo Alaska camper conversion on a Transporter
panel van, so Vera Vanagon she is.

Best regards,

Tony

'84 Vanagon 1.9 WBX "Vera"

>------------- Original Message -----------------
>
>Date:    Sat, 12 Oct 2002 12:44:29 -0700
>From:    Mark Belanger <belanger@FLUID.COM>
>Subject: Any clever nicknames?
>
>Greetings all,
>
>It's come time to name my '91 dark blue Westy.  I threw the naming
>effort open to my friends and the two best to come out of the group are
>'Vandalero' and 'Vintage Van Blu'.  Eh...  Adequate, but not truly
>worthy names.
>
>Anyway, it got me wondering what other people have dubbed their
>vehicles.  So let's hear it.  What have you named your vans?
>
>-MB

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