Come to Corvallis, Oregon.  I typically see about 10 Westfalia Vanagons and 10 Vanagons per day.  All on the road, driving.  I suspect Corvallis has one of the highest Vanagons/Westfalias per capita in the United States (only 50,000 people).  Heck, there are 6 Vanagons within a single block radius of my house (I own only one of those), 3 being Westys.  Those numbers would be 7 and 4 if my Westy weren't parked in Portland.

In recent years Corvallis has also been in the top three for patents per capita.  Maybe there's a correlation?  Didn't A. G. Bell drive a ................?

The Shaws <mindthegap01@COMCAST.NET> wrote:
Saw more in Portland OR this weekend than I have seen in Spokane in 10 yrs.

peter

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Miller"
To:
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 9:21 PM
Subject: Re: VW van count

How many of them run?

Mike in Sacramento

On 8/9/04 7:37 PM, "Aristotle Sagan" wrote:

> There are three in my driveway.
>
> tim in san jose
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Miller"
> To:
> Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 6:30 PM
> Subject: Re: VW van count
>
>
> There are four within four blocks of me that I know of, in Sacramento.
>
> Mike
>
> On 8/9/04 6:12 PM, "mark seifert" wrote:
>
>> On a recent trip home from work through Downtown Sacramento, I spotted
> about
>> 7 Vanagons. I know of 6 right off hand that live within a 10-block radius
> of
>> my house. They're everywhere around here.
>>
>>> From: Stephen Grisanti
>>> Reply-To: Stephen Grisanti
>>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>>> Subject: Re: VW van count
>>> Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 17:32:58 -0700
>>>
>>> On a recent business trip to New Orleans I spotted 5;
>>> a burgundy one in the French quarter, a silver one
>>> passing my hotel one morning, a white syncro near the
>>> western terminus of the St. Charles streetcar line and
>>> two (1 yellow/white, 1 two-tone blue) on the lot of
>>> Donated Vehicles For Sale on Canal Street (spotted
>>> from that streetcar). Interestingly, all were hardtop
>>> passenger vans. Also at the DVFS lot, it looked like
>>> a dad and son were stopped for a look and the teenaged
>>> boy was pasted up against the side of the blue van
>>> seriously checking it out.
>>>
>>> Stephen
>>>
>>> --- Rob wrote:
>>>
>>>> Took a drive out to the coast, just happened to
>>>> count VW vans on the round
>>>> trip.
>>>> 9 VW's & 1 Eurovan.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Rob
>>>>
>>>> becidawa@hctc.com
>>>> Now in western Washington, USA
>>>> ps/ FWIW saw 57 Subarus & 5 of the older Toyota vans
>>>> (the ones that looked
>>>> different).
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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