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Subject:Re: What's a Vanagon "Sport"?
From:Todd Last
Date:Thu, 19 Jul 2012 11:47:01 -0700

I had a plastic "Microbus" badge that matched the Vanagon badge that I
got off of ebay.
At least until some miscreant ripped it off my Westy.  I've not been
able to source a replacement.

Todd
'88 WEsty

On 7/19/2012 7:13 AM, JRodgers wrote:
> Hey, I've a 7 passenger '88 Vanagon that has "Transporter" on the back
> of it. It's in the same raised plastic lettering that is on the back of
> my other 88 Vanagon with lettering says "Vanagon GL". Maybe there are
> Vanagon "Transporter's" but I can't recall having ever seen one that had
> that label.
>
> My "Transporter" also has the VW logo recessed into the rear hatch.
> Haven't seen that either. Definitely not surface mounted.
>
> Do applied labels a vehicle make?
>
> John
>
> On 7/18/2012 10:37 PM, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
>> There's one parked down the street. Looks to be the same year as my '84,
>> same ivory paint, Westfalia top, peering through the windows the inside
>> looks pretty much like mine. Near as I can tell, the only difference
>> between it an mine are spiffy brown and orange horizontal paint stripes
>> and the word "Sport" on the sides.
>>
>> --
>> Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
>> 1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
>> Bend, Ore.
>>
>

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