With a small percentage of the 1980 vanagons having build dates in 1979
model year we are not too far off of 30 years for even just the vanagon.
Hope to make it to that time with mine.
jimt

On 12/16/04 1:16 PM, "Darren Lastfogel" <dlastfogel@PLYFORMS.COM> wrote:

> Eric
> Please give it a break. Many people out there do not seperate the
> difference between the different years. The point is Volkswagen Has been
> making a VAN since 1949. I assume that they meant driving a VW van for 30
> years.
>
> Darren
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Zeno [mailto:vw4x4@FYI.NET]
> Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 1:55 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: HELP My wife thiks the van is unsafe
>
>
> Anyone with a 30 year old vanagon please call the shot here!
> I'm getting sick of this BS......................
>
> Sharon Mendonca wrote:
>
>> We've owned Vanagons for over 30 years and our three children all grew up
> in one.  I don't think I've ever heard of anyone tipping over in one.  We've
> had one accident in one in all that time and we were rear-ended by somebody
> - no damage, just pushed a little.  They're certainly "safer" than SUV's -
> especially due to the fact that they don't go as fast as the suv's.  When
> you stop and think about it, you don't see many accidents involving these
> cars - or, at least, I haven't in all those years.
>>
>>
>>
>> Sharon & Bob Mendonca
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