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Subject:Re: What is a Vanagon, according to The Samba?
From:Rocket J Squirrel
Date:Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:00:18 -0700

Well, /that/ doesn't help.

Go to <http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/add.php> and make as
though you are going to sell a van. Find the "Model" field and hit the
dropdown box.

Which of the models there are our Vanagons?

--
Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
Bend, Ore.
1984 Westfalia. A poor but proud people.
1971 "Ladybug"-brand utility trailer ca. 1972 from a defunct company in
San Clemente, Calif., now repurposed as The Westrailia.

Sent from my kitchen.

On 08/24/2011 03:50 PM, Marius Strom wrote:
> A Type 2 T3.
>
> FWIW, the whole "bus or not" argument is dumb, IMHO. The early European name for the Type 2 T3 was Bus before they renamed it to Transporter: http://cgi.ebay.de/5-288-Programm-VW-Transporter-Bus-T3-Modelle-1987-/380360193327?pt=Kataloge_Prospekte&hash=item588f3bf52f
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Rocket J Squirrel
> Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 2:57 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: What is a Vanagon, according to The Samba?
>
> It's not a bus. Is it a Type 3 "Other"? A "Watercooled VW"?
>
> --
> Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
> Bend, Ore.
> 1984 Westfalia. A poor but proud people.
> 1971 "Ladybug"-brand utility trailer ca. 1972 from a defunct company in San Clemente, Calif., now repurposed as The Westrailia.
>
> Sent from my kitchen.
>