PS -- but amazingly, literally an hour ago I "ran into" the van I
asked about last week, with What Would Jeff Do etc.  Turns out that
a) it is in fact the dog trainer at http://www.whatwouldjeffdo.com/
and b) HE'S LIVED ABOUT A THOUSAND FEET FROM ME FOR YEARS!  Because
of the dogs there's a driveway gate such that you can't see the van
when it's parked, and I only drive down that road every few months,
but it's a hundred feet straight ahead from a corner/traffic light
that I'm at at least every few days, sometimes several times a day
for the last fifteen years, barring the times when I was having
trouble getting out of the house, flat on my back from depression,
suchlike.  And he's on the road all the time, hundreds of miles a day
he said.  Had the van about seven years IIRC, loves it.  It's treated
him well.  I wouldn't be surprised if you meet him before long -- we
just basically said "Hi" because I had to go.

At 04:46 PM 9/2/2009, Scott Daniel  - Turbovans wrote:
>we must live in different countries or something .....
>cause vanagons are *ALL OVER THE PLACE* ......

We certainly do, salt vs nonsalt at the very least.  These days
driving around Providence I see one every few months.  I just took a
600-mi round trip into Maine and a 1500 mile one into southeastern
Ohio, and saw zero vanagons and zero buses.

But they were always expensive and never a popular vehicle in
market-percentage terms.  Remember how VW kept changing their mind
about bringing in the T4s?

  --
David Beierl - Providence RI USA -- http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
'89 Po' White Star "Scamp"