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On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 18:03, Simon Glen wrote: > > > > I beg to differ here. I have a brochure printed in Germany, issued > by Volkswagen AG and dated June 1972. It is in German, English, > French and Spanish. It covers air-conditioning for VW air-cooled > Type1, 2, 3 and 4 vehicles and includes many photos. Towards the > end it says: > > "The VW air conditioners are manufactured by VPC, a subsiduary > company of Volkswagen of America Inc.. Their headquarters are in > Fort Worth in Texas. ... The VW air conditioners are installed in the > Volkswagen factory ... because of this we give you the same warranty > on the VW air conditioner as on the new Volkswagen". > > This brochure was given to me by a salesman in Nigeria in West Africa > in 1973. He was trying to persuade me to order a new VW tax free for > collection at the Wolfsburg factory with air-conditioning and a number > of other options. If any Type3 listee wishes, I could scan sections of it > (especially parts on the Type3) and E-mail them. > > Moreover, from 1973 models, Volkswagen listed air-conditioning > as one of its many factory production-line installed "M-Options" > for Type3s. It was VW Option M-573. > > So, it is clear that air-conditioning was a factory installed option. > However, there is no doubt that many Type3s sold in USA were fitted > with dealer installed air-conditioning. This would be fine for a > developed country like USA but nobody in their right mind would > expect to get a satisfactory air-conditioning system dealer installed > in countries like Nigeria, Zambia, Papua New Guinea or even > Saudi Arabia. So, it had to be factory installed at Wolfsburg or > Hanover. > They were installed by Volkswagen AG, but they were installed just like they would be at a dealer. They were installed off the assembly line, in a seperate department, after the car was already built. I don't remember seeing any come into the dealers that I worked for with AC already installed. And I installed most of them at the dealership I worked for. -- Russ Wolfe '66 FB MT (It drove) '71 FB AT russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- Search old messages on the Web! Visit http://www.vwtype3.org/list/