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Dear Anthony, I just looked at your most interesting web site with all those excellent pictures of your 69 notchback being dismantled and then beginning to come together again. When it is finished it is going to be a real beauty! However, I was amazed when you said it was "built on October 2, 1969". If that was the case, then it should have had a 1970 chassis number beginning "310 ...." and it should have had a long nose. Volkswagen starts the model year from 01 August each year and the 1970 model year (the model year for which the long nose started) is from 01 August 1969. Yet, looking at the pictures, your car is clearly a 1969 short-nose and the chassis number (VIN) is clearly a 1969 chassis number beginning "319 ....." . I was confused at first. Was your car perhaps CKD-assembled somewhere else where Type 3s were asssembled at the time like Ireland, Australia or South Africa? This could have accounted for a 1969 short-nose having a production date after 01 August 1969. But, then I looked at the deatails of your VW certificate from the VW Museum. It says that your car was made on "10.2.1969" which is 10 February 1969 which is clearly in the 1969 model year period of between 01 Aug 1968 and 31 Jul 1969. It seems to me that you have confused the date shown on the certificate. Only in USA and perhaps Canada is the month put first when indicating the date. Everywhere else the sequence is day, month, year. So, your car was made on 10.2.1969 or 10 February 1969 and not on 02 October 1969. Regards, Simon glen Toowoomba, Auistralia. Anthony Baker wrote: > I just updated mine today with photos of the completed floorpan. > > Anthony > > http://home.pacbell.net/abakr/notch.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list or mailto:help@vwtype3.org