That sounds great.  I think most of us end up with a collection of bus items.  I’ve been giving most of mine away for raffle items at our VW event fund raiser.  But, their are a few I have not let go of yet.

        I have a Mosaic of a hippie bus made by a talented student from the high school where I retired from.  And a Franklin mint exact scale model of a 67 beetle. 

But even these I’m starting to get ready to let go of as I just like hanging out with the real vans.  I find the beetle model just makes me want to  have a real beetle!  !

There are some very nice bus items out there.

Believe it or not I’m still partial to very nice bus T shirts. 

A friend just gave me one I’ve wanted for a long time.  The one that says something like… What would Jesus drive?  Picture of a old bus, then It says, Humble, economical, and room for 12.

I have only found one shirt with a vanagon on it. Sadly, I managed this week to stain it just before a trip with a few drops of oil.  But, then again, that seems appropriate.

Eric Caron 
> On Aug 1, 2022, at 1:50 PM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> I do have a painting of a white Vanagon, but I didn't paint it. It was a
> going-away gift from a non-profit I used to manage. One of the board found
> a woman who custom-paints gourds as presentation gifts, and they sent her
> pictures of my Westy to go from. She got the color a little wrong but I
> still love the thing. You can see it in the background on my felder.studio
> website, up high on a shelf behind me.
> 
> Jim
> 
> On Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 12:36 PM Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
> 
>> Oh so that’s what he’s been doing!
>> 
>> Sneaky guy :-)
>> 
>> Wasn’t a vanagon still life was it?
>> 
>> Ab
>> 
>>> On Aug 1, 2022, at 10:34 AM, Eric Caron <ericcaron96@comcast.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Yesterday My wife glanced in my FB feed to get to our event group and
>> noticed a painting by Jim Felder.  She thought it was amazing.  First, a
>> beautiful picture and then she realized it was a painting.
>>> 
>>> Let me know when you start sculpting!  In the meantime any of those
>> landscapes include a White Westfalia?
>>> 
>>> Eric Caron
>>