Re: RE: WHERE I LIVE

["Damian Clement" <vwtype3@lineone.net>]

No Type3 content but VW content and interesting all the same.
Renier,
I think that the CKD kits that you are talking about were from Volkswagen do
Brasil, where until 1975 they were still making Splitscreen Buses and
Pickups. Volkswagen do Brasil then switched to a Bay Window/Split body
hybrid which was sold until 1997 when they introduced the Nova Kombi,
basically the European spec Kombi after 1971 ( same body style, but with the
older round bumpers ). If you want to see the Nova Kombi Carat check out:-
http://www.volks.com.br/showroom/kombi/carat.htm   There is also a link from
here to the Kombi Standard/ Furgao plus a VDO clip of the Carat in action.

Damian
-----Original Message-----
From: HUNCHBACK OF TYPE3 <JHB2I06@jhb2.pwv.gov.za>
To: TYPE-3@umich.edu <TYPE-3@umich.edu>
Date: 20 February 1998 09:48
Subject: RE: WHERE I LIVE


>HELLO TOBY
>I LIVE IN JOHANNESBURG, WITH A POPULATION OF ABOUT 11 MILLION PEOPLE.
>SPARE PARTS ARE REALY A PROBLEM  HERE AS THE ONLY PLACES THAT SELL
>AIR-COOLED STUFFIES ARE BEETLE ORIENTATED.
>
>WHAT IS THE STORY WITH TYPE3 DOORS ? ARE THEY ALWAYS THE FIRST TO GO ?
>CAN THEY BE BOUGHT AS REPODUCTIONS AS I'M SURE YOU DON'T GET THEM AS
>NOS ? TO IMPORT WOULD PROPABLY COST ME MORE THAN WHAT I BOUGHT IT FOR
>
>NOW FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT.BEING A LOVER OF ALL AIR-COOLED VW'S I
>ADORE TYPE2'S SPLITSCREENS. AS WE ALL KNOW PRODUCTION STOPPED IN THE
>LATE '60'S RIGHT? WRONG! IN 1975 VWSA BUILT 849 CKD KITS OF THE
>BELOVED BUS, AND PICK-UPS, AND WAS SOLD SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE UGLY
>BAY-WINDOWS (WHO WANTS TO DIFFER?) THEY HAD ALL ROUND WINDOWS
>LIKE THE PRE '64 MODELS. BET YOU DIDN'T KNOW THAT, BET YOU DON'T CARE
>IN ANY WAY HAY?
>
>RENIER
>'69 QUASSIE
>'96 GOLF1 (CHICO)
>(........AND SOME KOREAN HYUNDAI BUT THAT DOESN'T COUNT RIGHT?
> EVER IF IT IS NEW AND COST ME AN ARM AND AN LEG)