Another Vanagon, so you can swap parts back and forth as needed?  BTDT.

More seriously, our MINI Clubman makes a reasonable complement.

Karl Wolz
Sent from my electronic umbilicus

> On Aug 28, 2015, at 5:57 AM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> By now, many or most of us on this list have spent some serious time and
> money making our Vanagons back into the capable, fun vehicles they were
> when they first rolled off the dealer's lot.
>
> They are well designed and well manufactured with good materials. They
> serve the needs of their owners so well that many would agree that there
> has been no replacement for them made earlier or later, and most of us
> would agree that is the reason they get the attention lavished on them that
> they do.
>
> So, given that some cars have "that certain something" and they warrant
> being kept and restored, what would be your second choice to give the same
> money and attention toward (as if that were possible for most people)?
>
> I am not looking for dream cars or exotics, but ordinary production cars
> that were well made and a joy to drive that should be resurrected from the
> scrapyards of history.
>
> I started thinking about this the other day when I was driving behind a
> 1983 Honda Accord hatchback, another car that probably has never quite been
> equalled in its utility and fun-to-drive-ness.
>
> If you could keep and drive a car as a compliment to your Vanagon, what
> would it be?
>
> Jim