I think the Transporter badge was used on South African Vanagons. I
have a couple of those badges. John, if you have the transporter
badge, I think there might be a connection with Unca Joel as that's
where I got mine. I would trade one for a nice chrome and black
Volkswagen badged as used on the back of lots of Vanagons including my
diesel. Don't want want with the VW logo, I've got those.

Jim

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 9:13 AM, JRodgers <jrodgers113@gmail.com> 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.
>>
>