The classic VW Type 2 camper van, now made in Brazil, can be bought new in the UK. Mark Dixon put some flowers in his hair and took off

Appropriately, I was driving through Woodstock - that's Woodstock in Oxfordshire, rather than New York State - when it happened. A young lad in his Vauxhall made a rude gesture with his right hand as I passed. Mentally tut-tutting at his appalling manners, I was several miles down the road before I realised that, far from being offensive, he was actually using one of those incomprehensible "VW" gestures with which fellow vee-dub enthusiasts signal their approval. Oh, the shame!