Ol' Ben brought a few VW's over here to sell.  Not much interest but he sold
the ones he brought over in order to pay for his ticket back to Europe.  The
bugs eventually caught on. He then saw a flatbed truck being used to ferry
parts around the VW plant and then drew a box with 4 wheels on it on a
napkin (like the Stonehenge from Spinal Tap) as his design for a new
vehicle.  The new vehicle was the VW bus. The first one was on a bug chassis
which bent in half under the weight. The new reinforced version was a hit
all over the world for those who desperately needed a box on wheels that
went up to 50 mph.

Later someone added a sloped windshield to that box on wheels and found a
way to make water leak out of the motor.  With a couple hundreds pounds of
camping gear these vehicles found homes with crazy people who like to throw
money at them.

Bryan

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
mike
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 10:54 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: 60 years ago this week

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On 7/31/07 7:41 AM, "Alistair Bell" <albell@UVIC.CA> wrote:

> The list is pretty quiet about this big birthday.
>
> Old Ben Pon started the ball rolling 60 years ago this weak.
>
> huzzahs!
>
> Alistair
>
>
>
> '82 westy, diesel converted to gas in '94
> http://www.members.shaw.ca/albell/