>> There are actually a surprising number of vans left in PA.  Lots of
Germans immigrated to the Philadelphia area and bought another Volkswagen,
my parents included. <<

Oh, there used to be a ton of VW's here. There are allot of garages around
here, ALLOT, that used to be all VW shops.  They all have aerial photos of
their shops from the 70's and it's full of beetles and squarebacks.
Phoenixville, where I live, is all German and Hungarian immigrants. When I
moved here close to 20 years ago it was a VW Mecca. One shop had a lot full
of used loaf Westy's and Vanagons at all time. The problem is all the shops
are now run by the sons of the original owners and they could care less
about VW's. When I bought my Westy 11 years ago all I had to do was open the
Philadelphia Enquirer and look through the list if Westy's for sale. It just
happened at the time my mechanic had one on his lot he was fixing that I
bought.  The Vanagon I had before my current one I bought off the lot of one
shop that had so many there I got to test drive several before buying.

In the 90's I had an automatic '72 squareback as a daily driver.

Ah, the good old days...

Bryan