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syncrodoka
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Typhon2222
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Location: Berkeley, CA --> Berlin, Germany
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A month after we bought Vanth, we helped my parents buy a Westy of their own, a brown '85.
When my then-girlfriend (now wife) first heard its waterfowl-like honking horn, she said it sounded like a goose. The name stuck. My parents call her Goosey.
Here are Vanth and Goosey parked side-by-side at the picnic spot where we had our potluck wedding last month.
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Morris_82
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Location: Colorado Springs
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I think it's almost a requirement to name your van. It becomes a part of the family, really.
Mine is Morris, as in Slo-Mo or Mo-lasses. Though I may have to rename him once I get his Camper Special done.
The best name I've seen here is Shadowfax, a rental on the west coast.
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Zero419
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Location: PA
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start of license plate
Ellen's
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crowinghen
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Joined: July 12, 2010
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Location: near Seattle,wa
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Butters... because when I started cleaning him I realized his color is the same as butter... it kinda looks like a stick of butter on wheels.plus I do kind of like Butters on South park. 
susie
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howdyhoss
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Location: Oregon
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We named ours "Ruby"- mostly because of the color- Titian Red. Looking back at the records, the original owners had letter to the PO about their name for the van: "Maria".
Some may see naming vans as somewhat silly, but ours is definitely part of our family.
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914 mike
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El Ladrillo
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In a world full of ponies it's a thoroughbred horse....
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SpudlyHotPotato
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Location: Phoenix, AZ
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Some may see naming vans as somewhat silly, but ours is definitely part of our family.
rg |
Seriously true. Maybe I anthropomorphize my van in order to help me cope with the money I spend on it, and in hopes that it will cooperate with me when we go on trips.
I could've had a landscaped yard, a remodeled shower, new flooring in my house, or a number of things instead of my Westy, and all the upgrades to it. For some reason I have a hard time explaining, even to myself, why upgrading what's parked in the driveway is happening before making upgrades in my house. I guess this proves how much I am my father's daughter.
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Volksaholic
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Joined: December 26, 2005
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Location: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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I don't name my vans, but people seem to name them for me. My roommates way back when referred to my '58 Westy as "Magic" after The Who's "Magic Bus." My it talking to my sister last Saturday about the Subaru conversion she dubbed it VDubaru (pronounced V-DOO-bu-roo). Whether or not that will stick is yet to be determined.
Here's a pic she posted on Facebook of my showing off my engine to my little bro last weekend at a family get together:
P.S.: My brother has a nice Eurovan MV that I've borrowed for a trip to the desert and one to Seattle... very nice ride. He and his wife quit their jobs, rented the house, and circumnavigated the continent in it a few years back... the ultimate VW Road Trip!
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PDXWesty
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DAIZEE
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Location: Greater Toronto Area Ontario West Side
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Scooby Blue may soon be named DEAD. Darn thing won't start again today!!!! Getting real tired of being held prisoner!!!!ggrrrrr
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rotorimp
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Location: Surprise AZ
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| "Storm Trooper" It is a white 84 westy with black Audi 5 spokes -kids started calling it that after too many Star Wars marathons- |
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levi
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Curious what names people have given their vans.
I wanted to name our '88 Westy Vincent, as in Vincent Van Go(gh). But my wife forbade me, saying the pun was simply too awful.  |
Hmmph...
I named mine Vinnie, resurrected from the name of an old pick-up I had in Cave Junction 30 years ago.
About 20 of us were living in a carved-out chunk of land nearby and I turned over the truck as canvas to a painter who said he kept having visions of Van Gogh paintings all over my truck.
Came out looking pretty damn nice.
So when I bought this westy, and it was the same base-color as that old truck, it was a flashback. Vinnie! You're back!
now all I need is a painter.....
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kevtherev
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she's a bitch sometimes.. it's ok she can't read |
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ANGOVAY
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Location: SMF
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| Typhon2222 wrote: |
Curious what names people have given their vans.
I wanted to name our '88 Westy Vincent, as in Vincent Van Go(gh). But my wife forbade me, saying the pun was simply too awful. |
Vicent is probably taken anyways. Vango is (as far as plates go) in Calif. at least in english.
Let us know what you come up with.
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scott eickstaedt
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My 84 is named PUBUS... yes I know it sounds kinda dirty...which I like  , but if you turn it around it spells SUBUP which is appropriate because im suby powered. |
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joeboxer428
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I named my '83 Frank, then decided that it was a she and not a he, so I threw an E on the end. Franke. I like to think of her as a jolly yet tempermental lesbian with a mullet.
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Carl P.
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| Named mine after a horse that my family friends had. "Scout". With the different shades of brown and the white pop top it looked alot like that horse. Wished I had a picture to show the similarities. Wanted to say that my family enjoys naming our vehicles. We have SeaCreature (78 Baywindow), Blue (71 Squareback) Smiley (66 Squareback), White Knight (03 Eurovan), Hero (96 Silverado named as such because it has to go and save the others from time to time), and Gracie our motorhome. The name adds to the character of each vehicle. |
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saxon9598
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| DasKine a play on Da Kine, being as its a Hawaiian German van |
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telebiker
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We named our 87 Westy GL Manny.
Manny the Manyanagon. The name came to us after he had decided if and when we were going on a trip. |
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