I get the "thumbs up" and polite drivers with my '79, but also get the
crappy treatment when I drive the '90 Westy, or basically I am too slow.
Jon

On 11/23/2014 4:21 PM, J Stewart wrote:
> Not so with my Vanagon, everyone loves it and recognizes it as a VW Bus/camper, young kids included. Everyone is usually surprised when I tell them it's a 1985 model, always saying they didn't know they were still made in 1985. Jeff
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>> oh yes...
>> other drivers and truckers used to toot their horn to say Hi when I drive
>> my Bay...
>> not anymore when I drive my vanagon, never... they blast their horn to get
>> me out of their way because I am slow...
>> I would say that vanagon had lost the "cachet" - and also the tolerance of
>> other drivers on the freeways....