Do the young ones 'get it'?  A couple (of many) anecdotes from camping
with the WetWesties for the last 11 years.  As I got out of my Westy and
walked up to the gathering group at the first WetWesties event I ever went
to I was greeted by a very young young lady sitting in the drivers seat of
a Bay Window.  After introducing ourselves she poured me a paper cup of red
wine and I figured I was with a good group.  Shortly after that at another
WetWesties event an eighteen year old slip of a girl pulled up in her Bay
Window with the engine and tranny she had just rebuilt (both) and she had
finished installing the night before.  And at another event when I asked
the two late teen aged boys, working on the Splitty they  had arrived in,
what was the appeal of a 40 year old vehicle to them they had trouble
coming up with a specific answer.  But they were there again the next
campout.  So don't worry about it, there will be more and more competition
in the Vanagon market place for some time to come.
Loren Busch
Turned 74 today