Re: [T3] Strange VW ad campaign

[Constantino Tobio <ctobio@gmail.com>]

<x-flowed>Russ Wolfe wrote:

> On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 20:17, Jim Adney wrote:
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> > > My '73 Fasty's window sticker says $3149 (including destination 
> > > charges), and the only options it got were 5 radial tires and Blue 
> > > Leatherette interior. Old guy didn't even spring for the Sapphire XIX 
> > > AM/FM radio, just the Sapphire XVIII AM radio it came with.
> > >      
> > I'm surprised that it was this high by '73, but where was this? I would expect 
> > destination charges to be higher on the left coast.
> >
> > Any radio would not have shown up on the same window sticker, because that 
> > sticker was from the factory, while the radio would have been dealer installed.
> > Radial tires and leatherette interior were factory options.
> >    
>
> Especially a Sapphire XVIII. That is an American made radio.
>
>  
Ah, so radios were a dealer-installed item then. It's concievable that 
you could buy a car w/o a radio altogether, then. I forget that buying a 
car 20-30 years ago was a somewhat different affair than today, what 
with me being a scant 1 month younger than my Fasty.

Unfortunately, I cannot find the sales invoice in my records, that would 
have beon good to have.

One mystery I did solve: my fasty doesn't have a locking glovebox, 
despite what the window sticker. Lo and behold, I find a service invoice 
from January 1974. Seems that the glovebox wouldn't open, and the guy 
must have gotten a non-locking replacement from a T1, possibly at his 
request.

By the way, I have some of those electronic service printouts from the 
early 70's. Quite interesting that the state of on-board diagnostics was 
at that level 30 years ago.

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