When I told my wife about this thread, she said, "Oh well, then. We
HAVE to give the Westy a name. So now we have a white 86' by the name
of "Vanilla." Will we actually use the name? Wait and see, I guess.

Jim C
71 Van
86 Westy 2.1 "Vanilla"

On Oct 3, 2008, at 5:33 AM, Larry Alofs wrote:

> When we bought our first vanagon, an '80, the PO informed us that
> it's name
> was Flanagon Vanagon.  We had to name our second one ourselves, so I
> came up
> with Vincent Van-G0.  Thought it was pretty original at the time,
> but that
> was before I discovered this list.  I've probably seen about half a
> dozen
> cases of the same name mentioned since.
>  When we got our present '91 since it is the same color as Vincent
> had been
> we decided he must a cousin, so his name is Vinnie.
>   Recently I bought a Westy that I hauled north from San Antonio on a
> trailer.  The Digiwife says that since it's yellow and from Texas
> the name
> must be Rose.
>
> so it goes...
> Larry A.