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Adriaan Loedolff wrote: > > 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 As far as I know the cars were assembled in Germany. The only other place of production was in Australia, which were a little different in some minor details. Engine: Maybe they don`t hold any records about which engine the put into which car. But if you give me your engine number I can tell you when it was produced. I have a list here to check. Roland `69 square `69 TL `69 beetle