Date:         Wed, 10 Apr 2002 11:24:21 -0700
Reply-To:     warmerwagen@HOTMAIL.COM
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From:         Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Benefits of a rear sway bar?
Comments: To: Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
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AH , yes , so it may be in the rest of the world.  But here in the USA a Type 3 is a Squareback, Fastback, or Notchback.A type 2 is Bus or Transporter.
 A Type 4 is the 411, and of course a Type 1 is the sedan, or Bug.  
As for the Vanagon it is the Type 25, but we don't call it that.  
It is the Vanagon.  

If you go to a junkyard to ask for parts for your 82 Type 2- you'll get the answer that there are no 82 Type 2's.  
Type 2 you are told covers everything from '49 to '79. If you go to a junkyard and find a part marked "Type 2", don't think that this will work on your Vanagon. It is for the Bus or it's Type 2 variations.  

I suppose for the sake of uniformity in the global Vanagon community we could agree to call it the 251.  

.  
The only numbers that matter other than the part numbers, are the price numbers!  

Robert

1982 Westfalia
1987 Wolfsburg
Seattle


----- Original Message -----
Wrom: AFXISHJEXXIMQZU
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 4:18 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Benefits of a rear sway bar?

>1. The vanagon as it has pretty close to 50/50 weight distribution. Initial
>understeer followed by terminal oversteer behaviour you describe may not be
>as apparent in vanagons as it is in Type II etc.

Please, folks, the Vanagon, as with ALL of VW's light vans (ie not
the LT) *IS* a Type 2 (Transporter)! The Type 2 IS the Transporter;
some versions are merely given a secondary name such as Kombi, Samba,
Vanagon or Caravelle. Despite the T3 not being MARKETED in USA as a
Type 2 or Transporter, it is nevertheless.

Type 2s:
T1 Split
t@ Bay
T3 "Vanagon"
T4 "Eurovan"
T5 to be
--
Andrew Grebneff
165 Evans St, Dunedin 9001, New Zealand
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
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