Thank you Bryan for acting out and sending your letter out.  I will do the same and will be pushing some of my fellow NY campers in the Empire State VW Camping Club to do the same.  We all want VW to succeed and all have marketing ideas.

So last Sunday, my cohorts and I went to save a Bay from the crusher.  As we were towing it back to my place through the little towns of NY we passed by two teenaged girls walking down the street.  When they saw the orange flavored 73 Westy in tow they immediately pointed and smiled waiving at us.    We immediately broke out the lines of the Master Card commercial:

    Finding a cheap old rusty Westy close by: Craigslist
    Top Speed of old van in tow:  45 MPH - no seriously 45!
    Putting $70 in the gas tank of the Land Rover: There is Master Card

    Seeing gleeming jeering teen aged girls wave at the old rusty Westy - Priceless!

That is the identity and the next generation.   (Ok the movie Little Miss Sunshine helped)

Cheers,
Joel in Rochester
89 Syncro Westy
87 Syncro Transporter
73 Westy Campmobile

----- Original Message ----
From: BJ Feddish <bfeddish@NETREACH.NET>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 12:46:23 PM
Subject: Re: Letter to VW

> I must say, there is a new generation out there looking at becoming bus
owners.... <<

Agreed. When I used to drive the van as a daily driver in the 90's nobody
really paid any attention to it. But these days all the teens and twenty
somethings know all about the "Westfalia van" which is what they always
refer to it as.

Bryan

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