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Received my "birth certificate"


Howdy 

By the strangest coincidence I received a letter from VW of Germany 
yesterday, on the day that my car clocked 200 000 miles, telling me 
all the "birth info" that I requested from them some time ago.

It goes something like: Thank you for you enquiry. Regarding your 
vehicle our records reveal the following:

VIN             369022143

Model           362 - 023
Engine          Not regestered
Colour          Diamond blue
Production date 27 September 1968
Delivery date   30 September 1968
Delivered to    South Africa

This is just great but it creats some more questions. Why would the 
engine not be registered? Were all T3 vehicles assembled completely 
by VAG and then shipped to other countries, or were the partially 
assembled cars shipped in crates to where ever they were going?

My car was sold for the first time on 15 January 1969, so if it took 
say 6 - 8 weeks for the car to be shipped to SA, be delivered to the 
factory, inspected and dispatched to the selling dealer where it 
probably sat untill it was sold, it could just be that my car was 
assebled in Germany. Does anybody have anything to add to this?

BTW in which parts of the world, besides Germany, were T3 cars 
assembled?

Regards

Adriaan Loedolff
adriaan@norton.ctech.ac.za
'69 Variant Automatic



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