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Subject:Re: VW van nomenclature
From:Jim Felder
Date:Wed, 1 Dec 2004 17:04:24 -0600

When somebody auctions a crushed vanagon that looks like the virgin
mary and weeps coolant tears, we'll be up there with the real ebay
weirdos. Til then, I don't think we'll be on the ebay weirdo radar
screens.

Jim

On Dec 1, 2004, at 10:11 AM, jbange wrote:

> At 04:24 AM 12/1/2004, you wrote:
>> But not any bus is a vanagon, my point. Look at the number of
>> splitties
>> and loafs with vanagon in the title.
>
> The reason for that is that the eBay Motors listing process gives you a
> bunch of canned choices in the form of pull down list boxes when you
> create
> the listing and unfortunately they've lumped all the T1, T2, and T3
> Type
> 2's  together as "Volkswagen: Bus/Vanagon". One could, I suppose,
> harrangue
> eBay about splitting the T1/T2 from the T3-- not an unreasonable
> request,
> as they already list the T4's as "Volkwagen: Eurovan"-- but it's
> probably a
> waste of time because they'll likely just roll their eyes and dismiss
> us as
> "weirdo VW heads, splitting hairs".
>
> John Bange
> '90 Vanagon "Geldsauger"
>