Date:         Tue, 23 Sep 2003 11:17:30 +1200
Reply-To:     Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
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From:         Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject:      Re: Vw T3
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>Yes there are!
>
>For those of you who are interested: the type Bart means is a
>so-called "taxi-busje", taxi-van. Official name is  "caravelle".
>Even today you still can see of lot of vanagons of this type on the
>dutch (and european) roads.
>
>In the front it has a double-seat on the right side, just good
>enough for two not too big persons. It also has a "wall" behind the
>front-seats, about 80cm high. Add the 3+3 in the back and you can
>stuff 9 persons in the vanagon.
>
>I will look if I have some old pictures of my caravelle, before I
>rebuilded it to a simple camper-van, and post them some day.

That must be a really BASIC Caravelle, basically a Kombi. My 84
Caravelle GL has velor buckets and all seats have folding armrests;
no bulkhead behind cockpit (it's walkthrough... I wasn't aware that
vans made after 1979 were available without walkthrough!).
--
Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin, New Zealand
64 (3) 473-8863
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
Fossil preparator
Seashell, Macintosh & VW/Toyota van nut