Some of my own observations -- My original name for the club was "Buffalo Bugs" - a spin-off of Buffalo Bills. This was nixed by Bob and Marv as not being inclusive enough of the entire range of VWs (Bob would probably have preferred "Buffalo Buses"), and not being inclusive of all of Western New York. My argument was you didn't need to live in Buffalo to love the Bills, or to be in our club. Also, the Bug is the mascot of the entire VW range. Fortunately cooler heads prevailed and the club was christened the mouthful, "Volkswagen Association of Western New York." Most clubs put the name of the town first, but we deliberately put "Volkswagen" at the front of the name, thus our motto, "We put Volkswagen first." But to this day, I still think "Buffalo Bugs" sounds cool.
An amusing anecdote concerns the club's initials, "VWAWNY." I thought it should be "VAWNY" because it was an acronym -- the letters spelled an actual word. But Bob argued that "Volkswagen" was actually two words in German, so it should be "VWAWNY." Well I don't know when we moved to Germany, but we've been the "VWAWNY" ever since!
-- Greg Carr