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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 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe? mailto:type3-request@vwtype3.org, Subject: unsubscribe