Down the road a piece here in Richmond, the Vanagons and bays seem to be�present in about equal (low) numbers.� I'm always surprised when one turns up that I have not seen before and it's just as likely to be a bay, as happened last night when I strolled to the neighborhood Advance Auto for more project shopping.� Some young hippie-looking guy in a beat white '72 Westy was buying parts to fix his Scirocco daily driver.� Splits are becoming very rare, or maybe they just live in better neighborhoods.
�
Stephen

--- On Wed, 10/19/11, John Jensen <bluesbug@VERIZON.NET> wrote:

From: John Jensen <bluesbug@VERIZON.NET>
Subject: Re: Vanagon envy?
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Date: Wednesday, October 19, 2011, 2:20 PM

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
http://www.johnjensenartist.com
bluesbug@verizon.net