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Vanagon & EuroVan Stories

To celebrate vanagon.com's one-year anniversary, we asked folks to write us a story featuring a VW bus. The story could be fictional, non-fiction, or somewhere in between. Winners were awarded prizes donated by a large number of corporate sponsors.

We received 50 stories. A couple were disqualified for being too long, while a few others had nothing to do with VW busses at all. The remaining 44 stories were sent to the panel of five judges. Each judge rated the story on a scale of 0.0 to 10.0. The results from each judge were then averaged, and the stories were ranked based on the average score.

Only one judge gave out a perfect 10.0 score, and that was to the story Maintenance, our Grand Prize winner.

Here are the winning stories, as well as some honorable mentions. All stories are listed in order of their score by the panel of judges:

Grand Prize	Joe Clark, Maintenance
First Prize	Bob Aldrich, Crossroads
Second Prize	Sharon Goodwin, 'Monty'
Third Prize	Ken Wilford, The Fifth Van
Runners up:	Emily Hanlon, I'm Not From Around Here
	Ken Wilford, Maggie
	Chris Wyatt, Syncro Gulkana Ice-Breaking
	Hans Eisenbeis, Coolant
	Björn Ratjen, Dogs and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance
Honorable mentions:	Charlie Ford, The Gift of a Dream
	Larry V. Brown, Das Bus
	Dyer Lytle, San Juan Barndoor
	Larry Carter, A Winter Trip
	Brian Strange, Turkey in "Divan"
	John R. Murray, The Dream Van
	William Dummitt, The Frame
	Juli Martin, Everybody Needs a Vanagon

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