Once on a road trip in my Jetta I tried to wave to fellow busses and
vanagons and could not get anyone to wave back! Jetta's don't even
make the list!!
:o)

On 7/25/07, David Etter <detter@mail.auracom.com> wrote:
> Hi Brendan:
>
>         It's like I've always said. There is a hierarchy to owning a
> Westy or VW Van.
> At the top of the heap are the 'Splitties' then come the 'Vanagon'
> models (arguments with the 'Bays' still arise here) then  the 'Bay
> Window' AND at the bottom of the list lie the Eurovans, (Phew! open
> the windows in here)
>
>         Proper etiquette says that you wave to equals and of course
> the upper echelons. Only if the lower classes wave first do you
> return the wave and only then if you are feeling generous.
>
>         The reason the Euros have taken possession of the lowest rung
> is the loss of the rear drive train set-up and the loss of ground
> clearance. To say nothing of the interior by Winnebago in place of
> Westfalia.
>
>         The Bays would have locked into second place with their
> air-cooled engine but the Vanagon model was such an improvement in
> space and interior design plus the loss of the split window was to
> lose any collector's value.
>         Even within the splitties group there is a hierarchy with the
> safari window models coming out on top or the 23 window version in
> the 'deluxe' van.
>         Although early Vanagons had an air-cooled engine it was the
> diesel models in 82-83 that established a higher sub-class with-in
> the vanagon series.
>
> IMHO                    David (dsl82westy)
>
> P.S.:  In my 'Second Life' , I'd love to own a centre pop-up 67
> safari 21 window Westy.. but not at the cost of losing my 82 1.6TD
> Westy.
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> >I've been waving when I see other Vanagons and sometimes at older busses and
> >Eurovans.  The Euro's almost never wave back, the older airheads mostly do
> >and the Vanagons almost always wave.  Hmm.  Any thoughts?
> >
> >
> >Brendan Slevin
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