In order of ownership since my first VW in 93:

72 Beetle - Smiley
87 Jetta GLI - Jetta
61 Beetle - Lucy
81 Rabbit Cabriolet - convertible
71 Beetle - Project
84 GTI - GTI
67 Square - Hans
85 Westy - Camel
90 Corrado - Bumble Bee Tuna
01 Beetle TDI - The Beetle
84 Westy - Hershey

Man, that's a lot of cars!

On 10/1/08, Jack R. <jack007@comcast.net> wrote:
> All this naming stuff has got me to think that after all my years of
> ownership of my 84 Westy, owned since 87... and my oldest son graduating
> from the Rhode Island School of Design.  I think it is finally time to name
> my Westy now.
>
> What does everyone think of Vincent???
>
> Since we all want our vans to run or "go".
>
> So, the formal name will be Vincent Van-Go!
>
> Jack R.
> 84 Wolfie Westy "Vincent"
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
> Tony Collins
> Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 6:33 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Vehicle Names
>
> This Vanagon will make my 8th VW. I also have # 7 Rodolfo the Scirocco. The
> Bus actually has two names Blue Brick, El Guapo. I do use the names in way
> or another to refer to the vehicles. This is not just a vanagon thing as
> many have mentioned. In the Scirocco crowd most of our cars at least in the
> Scirocco.org group have names.
>
> Also my wife's Mazda has a name and it is Simon, Simon Bond IIRC.
>
> I had an 88 Fox Wagon Foxxy, 72 Super Beetle Neptuno (my alter ego), 66
> sedan "the old guy", 86 Vanagon Party Wagon, 81 chevy chevette (my first
> car) chitvette......just to name a few. All pun intended.
>
> Tony
>
> On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Tom Buese <tombuese@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> My 84 Westy is vanity plate named DETLEF in honor of the OG owner who
>> owned it for its 1st 18 years & 38.5k miles.  We were the 1st to
>> answer his ad, & he wouldn't let us drive it, but would take us for a
>> ride in it.  It had only been serviced by the dealer, & looked/ran
>> like  brand new.
>>
>> Coincidently, I was not even considering a vanagon on the day I saw
>> the ad in the local paper, but threw a rod in a new engine in my 63
>> DC w/ 700 miles on it & said, hey, how about that vanagon in the
>> paper this morning!
>>
>> YMMV,
>>
>> Mr. BZ-Detlef now has 118k & is only slightly used
>>
>>
>>
>> On Oct 1, 2008, at 3:15 PM, Robert Adams wrote:
>>
>> My girls named my 87 syncro Gretchen - They thought it sounded like
>>> a large german girl.
>>>
>>> The name has stuck and now we all refer to her that way, The worst
>>> part is I find myself talking to her when we are all alone on a
>>> drive somewhere ! If she isnt driving/running just right I will ask
>>> her... Whats wrong Gretchen ?
>>>
>>>
>>> Bob
>>> 87 syncro Westfakia "Gretchen"
>>>
>>
>
>
> --
> 82 Scirocco
> 85 Vanagon
>

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