We have a Westy and a DoKa.  We used to also have a bus, an '88.

Come to think of it, I used to have another bus, a '62; 27 mph up the hill
from Phoenix to Flagstaff, till I installe a 009 dizzy and an extractor
exhaust that my mom didn't like.  Then it made a full 32mph!

I tend to remember my old vehicles fondly.  The scars of unreliability lack
of temperature control, etc. are largely forgotten, unless I really stop to
consider whether I'd want another '68 Squareback, or Quantum, or ...

Yep, mostly pretty darned good vehicles, unless I remember too hard.

Karl

|-----Original Message-----
|From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
|Rob
|Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 10:34 AM
|To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
|Subject: Re: Potts new Vanagon(s)
|
|At  8/26/2010 07:21 AM, Greg Potts wrote:
|>Hi Paul,
|>
|>Dunno if I am becoming less of a bus guy really, but I certainly am
|>becoming more of a Vanagon guy. Which is awkward to admit since there's a
|>current thread on another list that is debating the use of the term "bus"
|>to describe a Vanagon.
|
|My '84 is a bus, my '87 was a bus, my '79 was a bus, my '71 was a
|bus, my '63 was a bus and both my '59's were buses. I'm a VW bus
|kinda guy... not sure how I'll feel about it if get an EV.
|
|Seriously, driving my '84 Vanagon feels like driving any of the buses
|I've had over the years. Well the window does roll down and it didn't
|on the 59-63 years, which is why I bought the '71. I was in Hawaii
|with the 79 and moving to Chicago, I was looking for heater
|boxes/engine for the '79 when I saw the ad for the 86 syncro Vanagon.
|That was my first Vanagon, it had real heat but it was still a bus
|when I drove it.
|
|Drive your Vanagon Greg and call it a bus, it still is.
|
|
|
|Rob
|
|becida@comcast.net
|Western Washington State, USA