I think they are all on the Olympic Peninsula - people don't even wave
any more they are so common. In Port Townsend today I saw over five
while doing errands...

Andree

On Wed, 30 May 2007, Robert Fisher wrote:

> It would be interesting to know what the on-the-road survival rate of these
> vans is... meaning how many of them are actually (and legally) in use versus
> the number that were sold in a major geographic area (North America, Europe,
> etc.)
> I wonder that they aren't just getting rare(r) now.
>
> Cya,
> Robert
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matt Roberds" <mattroberds@COX.NET>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 4:53 PM
> Subject: Re: Vanagon Sighting
>
>
> >> From:    "Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\" Elliott" <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
> >> Date:    Wed, 30 May 2007 11:51:23 -0700
> >>
> >> Well, we need to do a per capita thing. How many people in the Port
> >> Huron, MI, area?
> >
> > To calibrate your head a little: one source I have says that from 1980
> > to 1989, about 119,000 Vanagons were exported to the United States.  If
> > all of those vans were still on the road today, there would be about one
> > van for every 2,500 people in the United States.
> >
> > By this logic, greater Tulsa, OK, would have over 300 Vanagons.  My
> > personal estimate is that it's much lower, probably in the range of a
> > few dozen.
> >
> > Matt Roberds
>

Sincerely,

Andree Hurley

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