Good point, my bus bother!  And yes, I did forget to include a
subject line.  Dang, makin' mistakes all over the place!

Warren
88 Westy "Billy Bones"

On Jan 15, 2007, at 1:02 PM, JordanVw@aol.com wrote:

> 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