I have just got hold of a Vanagon L and live in Lancashire, England.
To be honest it is the only one of its kind I have ever seen,
however, there are a good few bay window vans around - many of them
fully restored.  The trouble is the weather which just chews through
the metal and rots them on the seams and the underbody very quickly.
Until I got the Vanagon I looked at more than thirty different vans,
without exception they were really rusty and needed more work than I
could have done myself to get them back on the road at the price I
could afford.  You can pay in excess of $10k for a good van here. The
bay windows and splitties are very expensive and trendy here and can
fetch even more, the equivalent to Vanagon are around, not many of
them, are rapidly gaining popularity because they are that bit
younger.  Additionally, our road tests, emissions rules and so on are
menaing that older vehicles are being squeezed by regulation.
On 27 Aug 2005, at 14:23, JordanVw@AOL.COM wrote:

> In a message dated 8/26/05 7:38:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> zolo@FOXINTERNET.NET writes:
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>
>
>> . Then maybe we
>> might still see T3's.
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> last time i was in germany ('98)  i saw very few T3's.   the road
> crews were
> still using a few or the orange painted dokas here and there
> (looked like they
> were on their last legs), but that was about it.   i was NO T2's
> and i only
> saw one T1 ..a 21 window sunroof bus, and it was restored and on
> the back of a
> car hauler.
>
> i guess strict TUV standards keep the older vehicles off the
> roads.   i saw
> no beetles either..
>