>There is a t shirt available on ebay, item #3943414885, which shows a
>pre-80 air-cooled type body / bus camper and labels it as an 87 Vanagon
>Camper GL.  I wrote to T-shirt kings the seller pointing out that this
>wasn't a vanagon in the picture and got the following reply:
>
>"We like to point out that the design of the T-shirt is not from the US
>and outside the US the vehicle bodystyle was still produced in such
>countries as Mexico (possibly still produced today), using the name
>Vanagon."
>
>Is this correct?  Was the name Vanagon ever used for any other body that
>what we in the US and Canada call a Vanagon?  I don't claim to know as
>much about this nomenclature as several list members, but don't recall
>Vanagon being used for that body type.  I thought it would have been
>called a transporter or a Kombi as in Brazil, on the page had linked in
>an earlier email.  One of my son's doctors is from Brazil and we have
>talked about the Kombis before.
>
>Maybe I am wrong, so let me know.
>
>Sam

Indeed wrong. The T3 was called Vanagon in North America only; the T4
was sold as Vanagon in Japan.
--
Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin
New Zealand
Fossil preparator
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut