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Subject:Re: Names
From:Tony Collins
Date:Fri, 3 Oct 2008 13:14:24 -0400

You can always follow Vanilla with Ice, Ice baby
http://www.austinchronicle.com/binary/49d2/vanilla_ice.jpg
Just sayin'

tony

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Jim Cochran <mxsailor@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>

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