Wow, this is interesting! My van IS white, but it was repainted. I'll check with a pervious owner who repainted it to find out if they did away with the blue stripe! This would make sense, esp with the stamp from Genova (italia???). That would be a cool way to buy a VW! Now they just include trek bikes, or other gimmicks. Brian >From: "Joel Walker" <jwalker17@earthlink.net> >Reply-To: "Joel Walker" <jwalker17@earthlink.net> >To: "Brian Cochran" <rangerbrian@HOTMAIL.COM> >Subject: Re: Interesting things in glovebox,VW orgins, >"joker"...wolfburg, etc. >Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 22:16:30 -0600 > > >sounds to me like you've got one of those >buy-it-and-pick-it-up-at-the-factory deals. years ago, vw would let >you purchase the camper here in the states (pay your local dealer), >then fly to germany and pick up the camper, drive it around europe, >then come back to hanover, germany, and they'd ship it back to the >u.s.a. for you on their normal vw shipping boat. > >if it's white with a blue stripe, that's even more likely ... that's >the standard color of those campers sold on those deals. and the tour >of europe was with a guide (in another camper), herding as many as a >dozen folks in such campers. the guide handled all the paperwork at >the borders and gas stations and so forth. > >no, vw doesn't do that anymore. :( > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com |
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