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Subject:Re: Of course a vanagon is a bus!
From:Warren Lail
Date:Fri, 3 Feb 2006 19:22:55 -0700

That does it!  I'm going to buy the Microbus emblem.    I followed the link and found the original VW of South
Africa emblems and decals.  Check them out, fellow bus drivers...

www.southafrica-parts.de

Warren L.
88 Westy Microbus (I've already got the SA grille (upper and lower) and SA Rhein Alloys, so may as well go all
the way!)

----- Original Message -----
From: Todd Lund <westy4us@yahoo.com>
Date: Friday, February 3, 2006 6:49 pm
Subject: Re: Of course a vanagon is a bus!

> This guy will probably list some again.
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8025356463&viewitem=&category=33643
>
> --- Warren Lail <wlail@OU.EDU> wrote:
>
> > The engine is in the rear and a VW logo is on the
> > front, so as far as I'm concerned the lineage is
> > sufficient for us to
> > refer to Vanagons as buses if we so desire.  Our
> > beloved Vanagons are only called this in North
> > America (as far
> > as I know).  I know that in some places they are
> > called Transporters and in South Africa they were
> > called a Bus -
> > sometimes Mini-bus, until they halted production in
> > 2002.  So I'm driving a Vanagon that I sometimes
> > refer to as a
> > bus. :-)  If I could find one of those SA Mini-Bus
> > logos or whatever, I'd put it on my bus in a flash.
> >
> > Warren L.
> > 88 Westy Bus  (be proud of your Vanagon's heritage!)
> >
>
>
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