It is Friday, but they meant those vanagons have so many bugs

On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Rocket J Squirrel <
camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:

> It's bad enough that folk conflate the Vanagon with the '60s splittie --
> the iconic hippie bus, but calling a van a bug?
>
> It's madness, pure madness, I tell you.
>
> --
> Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
> 1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
> Bend, Ore.
>
>
> On 11/20/2015 10:21 AM, Larry Alofs wrote:
>
>> Twice in the past couple of months I have heard a vanagon referred to as a
>> "Bug".  As in "Nice Bug!" or "What are you going to do with those two Bugs
>> parked out back?"
>>
>> I was someewhat taken aback, but did not object.  Is this common usage?
>> Maybe only here in the Midwest?
>>
>> Larry A.
>>
>>