OMG!  All those years I drove VW buses and then when the Vanagon came out,
the people who drove them said..."This is a Vanagon, NOT a bus"...and they
were quite happy to point out that they had "Actual heat" (I will discount
the aircooled vanagons, I never knew anyone who owned one of those) and
they could go up hill and their vans didn't need new motors all the time,
etc etc....

  I guess real VW buses are fading into memory now...and Vanagons are being
called buses....I know someone recently asked me if that was my old Hippie
Bus in the lot.....If I remember my Hippie days....by the time Vanagons
came out Hippies were about done, weren't they?  And none of us actual
hippies had money to waste on NEW VW vans...

  I call mine "My truck" sometimes....because it does the same stuff as my
now-parked turbo diesel Ford with the camper on it....But I never have
called it a bus...because I promised myself I would NEVER own another VW
bus after my third or fourth rebuild on my 36hp 1957 splittie panel .....
I, for one, consider Vanagons are different creatures than VW buses
were....similar, but different.  But hey, call em what you will, I
stand.....dumbfounded, like a cow staring at a passing train.....

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 9:17 PM, Rob <vwrobb@gmail.com> wrote:

> Jeez.... my '59 was a bus, my '71 was a bus, my '79 was a bus, my '86
> was a bus, my '87 was a bus and my '84 was a bus ... unless I called
> it a westy but it was still a bus <g>.
>
> Have a nice day.
>
> Rob
>
>
>
>
> At  4/11/2013 11:06 PM,Don Hanson wrote:
>
>>   Ya, but I bet if you drove a real VW bus you wouldn't go callin it a
>> Vanagon, woodja?
>>
>