

| Subject: | Re: Vanagon etymology |
| From: | Roger Van Till |
| Date: | Thu, 16 Dec 2004 19:47:48 -0500 |
My wife's a graphic artist, I'll see if I can talk her into working up a t-shirt design. Roger On Dec 16, 2004, at 5:18 PM, Tim Demarest wrote: > Yeah, but I like your analysis better... lends itself nicely to a > t-shirt... "Pentagon, Octagon, Vanagon" inside outline drawings of > each... > > At 03:54 PM 12/16/2004 -0600, Jim Felder wrote: >> Hmmm... I'd never thought of the van+(w)agon angle. Leave it to me to >> complicate things. >> >> Jim >> >> On Dec 16, 2004, at 3:43 PM, Detroit Bus wrote: >> >>> Jim, I've never heard that analysis, but it is certainly more >>> creative >>> than what I've always thought, that its just a combination of "van" >>> and "station wagon" (the official American name of the original VW >>> bus....) >>> >>> I actually quite like that. >>> >>> Garrick >>> >>> >>> On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:22:17 -0600, Jim Felder <felder@knology.net> >>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> The vanagon name is an interesting one, anybody with some good >>>>> insight >>>>> on >>>>> how vw came up with it? >>>> I always figured it was to create a name for a unique shape, like >>>> pentagon, octagon... vanagon. It does have a distinctive shape, and >>>> it >>>> is rather rectilinear. >>>> >>>> Vanagon = dimensional locomotive solid with parallel opposite sides, >>>> the volume of various liquids required to fill it being inversely >>>> proportional to the amount of money spent on it divided by time >>>> spent >>>> underneath it minus parts scrounged for it. >>>> >>>> Don't think outside the box, think under it. >>>> >>>> Jim >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Garrick, Queens, NY >>> '87 GL Weekender >>> >>> ***** >>> With fond remembrances of: >>> '77 Beetle >>> '67 Bus >>> '59 Pickup sn# 460440 >>> '67 Beetle >>> '76 Camper Bus >
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