In a message dated 1/15/07 2:24:15 PM Eastern Standard Time, vw.bus@MAC.COM
writes:

> 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 :-)
>

Warren, my fellow bus brother, you forgot to put a subject in the heading..
:<)

if you really want to get technical, then we can all just call them T3's.  i
think thats something we can all agree on.
But here in the good 'ol USA, VWOA (and VWOC) had decided to call the '80-'91
T3's "Vanagons", so i do as well to avoid confusion.. lets not confuse the
poor newbie? Most people in the USA associate the name "Vanagon" with the
'80-'91 vans and the name "Bus" with the '79 down vans anyway..  now if we lived in
Europe it'd be different.

just easier to say "vanagon"  than '80-'91
"T3-25BusTransporterVanagonCaravelleWhateverUwannaCallit"..

but yes, you can call Billy whatever you want to call him :<)

and ps, i think VWSA called their T3's "Microbus" not "Minibus" :<)

chris
who owns a bunch of Vanagons - aka US model T3's..and one T3 Transporter