chris turner wrote:

"79 down is a bus.   80-91 is a vanagon. "

Er ahh, not to stir up a controversy with my bus brother chris, and
especially since right now I'm only getting to read bits and pieces
of the digests, but I drive a 1988 VW bus that is called, for
marketing purposes, a Vanagon.  The same bus is called a Transporter
(England), a Minibus (South Africa) (through 2002) and who knows what
in other places around the globe.  If it looks like a bus, sounds
like a bus, smells like a bus, has a rear engine like a bus, causes
the eyes of little kids to open wide when they see it like a bus,
gets blown around in the wind like a bus, toots it horn like a bus,
makes others who drive buses wave when we pass on the highway like a
bus . . . then as far as I'm concerned it's a bus.

Billy Bones, a bus :-)