Pete's right about Indiana. I live in Indy and own two Vanagons. Based on the quantity I've seen on the road since Oct '08, I'd say I own about half the known Vanagons in Indy.

Mark K
1986 GL/2WD/4SPD
1990 Carat/2WD/Auto

On May 17, 2010, at 5:48 PM, Peter T. Owsianowski wrote:

> Can't imagine that here in flyover country here in northern Indiana.  It is
> not uncommon to go months without seeing a Westy or GL.  Also, rarely see
> one in Winter months.
> 
> I think they are more common in Michigan than Indiana to boot.
> 
> 
> Pete
> '79 Westy "Aardvark"
> '87 Westy "JoesVan"
> WWW.Busesbythebeach.com
> 
> 
> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Matthew Snook <matt@greenbeard.us> wrote:
> 
>> Loren, I know what you mean!  Remember the discussion last year, somebody
>> posted the membership locations for all the vanagon.com members - the West
>> coast is where it's at!  I'm in Eugene, Corvallis, and Portland fairly
>> often, and they're everywhere.  The first time there were three of us
>> Westies at a four way stop I thought "What are the odds against that?!"
>> Since then it has happened several times.  The residential neighborhoods I
>> visit often sport more than one Westy per block, when I gas up there
>> is.well, I can't say 'usually' but it's not a rare occurrence for there to
>> be at least one othe Westy or vanagon at the station.  I don't think that's
>> typical of the country as a whole.
>> 
>> Matt
>>