Re: [T3] VW builds '63 Type 3s just for me

[Jim Adney <jadney@vwtype3.org>]

On 15 May 2003 at 0:30, Dave Hall wrote:

> There's enough evidence to suggest batch production for one particular importer
> was the norm - I had 3 Squares at one time, made on successive days.  With
> special requirements for the various markets and without the present computer
> controlled parts conveyors it would be the only sensible way to build them.  All
> LHD with mile speedos, non-flashing headlight dipping, plus whatever else the
> USA market had different (probably some things different in '63) and a ship
> waiting to fill up with VWs and head off to the USA.

Later on this would be a good theory, but in 63 there were NO type 3s being 
made for the US market. Our first official year wasn't until 66.

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Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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