Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 18:46:51 -0600
Reply-To: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject: Re: '81 plastic vents
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I haven't got the VIN numbers on the three 81s I've had but that all had
metal vents. Thats not saying that all were metal. However like you said
some had plastic but I think it was probably a matter of using up parts
in production line inventory.
My Westy was manufactured Sept 8, 1982 and it was sold as an 83 year
model. It is my understanding that ZERO air cooled were manufactured
after December 1982. That is something that has come up several times but
I'm thinking that sometimes the incomplete vehicle may sit three months
before it becomes a Westy.
There is also the possibility that the base vehicles came from different
plant locations.
Stan Wilder
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:17:17 -0700 "Richard A. Jones"
<jones@COYOTE.COLORADO.EDU> writes:
> Stan wrote:
> >>The 82 and 83 had the rear plastic vents. The 80-81 had the steel
> vents
> >>in the body panel.
>
> and Myron wrote:
> >>My supposed 81 Westy has plastic vents, but still the full width
> >>rear seat, propane tank in the cabinet, and no stove. Is it
> really
> >>an 81 or a mis-labeled 82?
>
> My '81 was built in May '81 and has plastic vents. If any '81s
> had the metal vents, it must have been earlier in the model year.
> Sometime in the model year they also added the blower motor to
> the fresh air box.... What else changed during '81?
>
> It was 20 years ago last week that I purchased my '81. I was sick
> of being cold after a day of back-country skiing, driving down to
> Boulder in my '76, so I went to the dealer. He had just gotten
> some '82s in--with carpets. I didn't tell the dealer I liked the
> rubber mats better and helped him get the '81 (with a gas heater)
> out of his inventory....
>
> Richard A. Jones
> Boulder, Colorado
> '81 Vanagon Mr Bus
> '87 Syncro Westy El Jefe
>
>
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