I will tell you that in my many travels to North Western Germany, you don't
see many '80s vehicles. TUV gets them. But you do see amazing amounts of
Vanagons, Dokus, Sikus, and those big ones. Both campers and work trucks.
Not many 7 passenger types though. I have also seen a lot of converted
military vans still on the road.

tim in san jose

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:

> I think all german cars went through a period around the Vanagon time frame
> where they got better protection from rust. Old Porsches were horrible. My
> 77 911 came hot dip galvanized.
>
> Jim
>
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 1:20 PM, John Jensen <bluesbug@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> > It seemed to suddenly happen, first with the splitties then with the bay
> > window vans, that they just dropped off the streets.  We still have a
> > few Vanagons driving around here in Annapolis, but they are becoming
> > rare.  I do get a fair amount of young people admiring my van in one way
> > or another.  I get the feeling that to a lot of people all VW camper
> > vans are more or less the same.  One advantage the Vanagons have over
> > all previous styles of VW Vans is that the Vanagons have a lot more
> > steel in them...It takes a bit longer for them to rust away.  Or so it
> > seems to me.
> >
> > John Jensen
> > johnjensen@johnjensenartist.**com <johnjensen@johnjensenartist.com>
> > http://www.johnjensenartist.**com <http://www.johnjensenartist.com>
> > bluesbug@verizon.net
> >
>

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