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>From: pupland@bserv.com (Douglas Taylor)
>About ten years ago I did the backpack thing across Europe, and I noticed
>some unusual production VW's, especially in the Mediterranian. In Greece I
>noticed Vanagons (that is, the body style of post '79 N. American vans)
>with Type 3 engines.
Not meaning to be insulting--do you know the difference between a type III
and a type IV engine? Sorry, this is just a question that has to be answered.
>What aroused my curiousity the most was a car that was clearly a production
>Type 3, with the same basic front end as the notch, square and fastbacks,
>but it was a pickup truck version.
I'm not sure how it would be possible to know that it was a production
model. I have seen squarebacks cut down to open top "pickups" in the US but
I never examined one closely.
The microfilm, which covers the total world-wide production makes no mention
of a pickup. I don't have late type II microfilm, it might indeed show
vanagons that use type III engines. The earlier microfilm shows that busses
were made with type I 1600cc engines for years after they disappeared from
the US scene. I first learned of this from a German visitor who told me he
had a 197? (late, I don't remember.) When I expressed disbelief he reminded
me that I was thinking only of the US market. I later verified his claim in
the microfilm. I was grateful for the lesson.
Jim
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Melissa Kepner Jim Adney
jadney@vwtype3.org jadney@vwtype3.org
Laura Kepner-Adney
Madison, Wisconsin
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