On Thu, 25 Aug 94 13:47:38 CDT William R. Kennedy, NJIT CIAT, 201-596-5648 said:
>I think Joel's taxonomy is for the later years, or else I have the wrong badge
>on the back.  My 1981 thinks it's a Vanagon L, but it has chrome bumpers,
>cloth seats, carpeting, and originally a black pinstripe at the beltline
>between elfenbein and orange.  Now it's elfenbein (or as close as Maaco could
>get on a bad day) all over.
>If I remember right, L was as good as it got in the first two years of Vanagon.
>Anybody else's 80 or 81 L as "loaded" as mine?  L also means squeezable brown
>shift knob, instead of black plastic, right

whoops! bill's right. for the 80-8?, the L was the top of the line, with cloth
and carpet and chrome. anybody know when the GL started showing up? 83 water-
cools?

joel
(who tends to think in terms of just a few years ago ... or not at all)