FWIW I have been asked/stated the following from other vehicle drivers.

(1) Is that a VW "BUS"?
(2) Is your "BUS" for sale?
(3) Does your "BUS" have heat or AC?
(4) Those VW "BUSES" are cool!
(5) I've always wanted a "BUS" like that!
(6) There is a lot of room in your "BUS"
(7) Can I test drive your "BUS"?
(8) Is that pronounced Van-again or Van-agone?

I can go on, but you get the idea. While both of my vehicles are Vanagons, I
call them both a BUS and a VAN. And my 85 GL is a LOT of FUN to drive unlike
any vehicle out there on the market today. And with the kids getting picked
up in it after school, I (we)sometimes feel like a BUS driver. :-) My 85 GL
is black in color and my kids thought it was a magic school bus based on
some after school program they had watched last year. While "dad" relates it
to the popular song by the WHO, who he saw in concert back in the early
seventies in Springfield, MA. :-)

Bill
super magic bus

>>Magic Bus says it all
>
>That is based on The WHO song... which is an English group and they were
>taking about a Blue Bird School Bus... of course as usual it was changed
>into a local cultural term... the song was a hit in Calif. and
>it got pinned on the MicroBus.... Which still to me is the original Bus....
>I would think the name VANagon... would flick on a few switches in some dim
>areas... but there are just some places the light never seems to shine...
>here's an interesting test... go out into a Wal-mart parking lot with your
>Vanagon beside a blue bird bus and ask everyone passing by, which is the
bus
>or the van.... Let me know if anyone needs any help with what they will get
>as an answer;^)...... P.S. I wave at them all... & I generally don't like
>name
>calling.
>
>Lets talk Turkey.... gobble gobble... all the best to my friends & family
>Rob
>87 Westy SyncroGL.....Cynosure (slip&drip)
>
>rountree@planeteer.com