If you check back on the blog, there is a detailed explanation that the bus
Mr. Townsend has is a Brazilian model he he bought in the UK.

Too bad we can't get them here.

--
Pete
'79 Westy "Aardvark"
'87 Westy "Joe's Van"
WWW. Busesbythebeach.com

On 3/3/08, Scott Daniel - Shazam <scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:
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> It's simple, the author doesn't know what he's talking about.
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> And why would he say 're-introduced' as if they were withdrawn from our
> market for a while ?
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> 'making stuff up' as you say.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
> BJ Feddish
> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 7:23 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Interesting Article About Pete Townsend's Bus
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> My guess was that they are referring to the Vanagon which was introduced
> in
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> England in 1979. If it's not that then it's the usual media making stuff
> up.
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> Bryan
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> -----Original Message-----
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> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
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> Jeff Lincoln
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> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 10:11 AM
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> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
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> Subject: Re: Interesting Article About Pete Townsend's Bus
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> I'm a bit confused by this statement at the bottom of the article
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> *"P.S. The automotively minded will recall that the VW camper/minibus was
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> reintroduced in the United States around 1979, but it was a bust, mainly
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> because it was so underpowered."*
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> I'm not disputing that it's under powered but the rest cannot be an
> accurate
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> fact can it?
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> Thanks,
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> Jeff
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> '90 Carat (Grover)
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> '86 (We call this one Parts)
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> '85 GL (Preparing to move to a new Home)
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> '78 Bus (Melissa) Patty's Bus
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