Just yesterday I saw anther older single-headlight Westfalia parked,,
as I exited a large big box store and crossed it's huge full parking lot.
Mine (an 84 tin top in Asuan Brown, usually unwashed) was parked out in the
furthest corner of the lot, because I often bring my large,
striking-looking young Chesapeake retriever along and he can startle people
as they walk past my van....
     So as I was crossing the lot, I noticed how much people were checking
out that other older vanagon, parked near the exit to the store;
road-dirty, but in excellent shape, pretty stock...Almost every shopper who
walked past that van gave it a lot of attention....
I noticed, too,  that Vanagons look....different  ("dated?"}.... from most
of the other vehicles on the road today and they really stand out amongst
all the  *normal* vehicles....The general public probably now thinks
Vanagons are the real hippie vans......I don't think I have seen a split
window VW bus on the road for a few years now, and very few bay
windows..... There are probably millions of young humans who have NEVER
seen an aircooled VW bus, even...and yet these people check out our
Vanagons and point em out to their children and pass em by with a smile,
for the most part.
    In some part of my mind I must have realized the Vanagon is old, but
I've been thinking of mine as a "modern" van, since it is modern compared
to  split-window vans.
    They ARE sort of 'quaint' looking, I just never really looked at em
like that...They do stand out.
    Guess I better dig out my tie-dyes and that old Moody Blues 8-track
tape I  still hate so badly,  after once upon a time, long long ago,
crossing the western states aboard a 1957 36 hp splittie at about 30mph,
with them as our only music....
I got me another "hippie van"......Groovy!....