Re: [T3] Nadine was born RHD with Sunroof

["Jim Adney" <jadney@vwtype3.org>]

On 10 Jan 2002, at 19:18, Steven Ayres wrote:

> => 1 for notches and fastys, 4 for Ghias, 6 for
> => squares.
> 
> I've occasionally wondered what might have become of the other body
> designations -- 2, 3 and 5. From 1 and 4 I draw parallels with the Typ 1
> line. Have Type 12 or 13 ever appeared in production or concepts? The
> numbers must have been used for something.

I've always viewed it as a botched or flawed basic concept. I would have done 
something like this:

Divide the car into pan and body, then there are just 2 pans:

31 LHD type 3
32 RHD type 3

Then if you wanted to, you could have made the IRS cars

33 LHD IRS type 3
34 RHD IRS type 3

Note that this scheme uses the same odd/even division that the parts list 
uses for LHD/RHD parts.  

Then all we need to do is add another digit representing the kind of body that 
gets dropped on this pan:  

1 notch
2 notch w/sunroof 
3 Ghia
4 Ghia w/sunroof 
5 square
6 square w/sunroof 
7 fasty
8 fasty w/sunroof 

Add a final digit for the model year and you have a 4 digit VIN prefix which 
can also be your model #. Or just take the first three digits as the model #, 
whichever way you like, but either way it is more clear and gets rid of the 
notch/fasty ambiguity.  

Had it been done this way, the 68 LHD notch would have been a 3118..., or 
just a model 311.  

-
Jim Adney
jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, WI 53711-3054
USA

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