Date:         Mon, 12 Jan 2004 20:30:29 -0600
Reply-To:     Joel Walker <jwalker17@EARTHLINK.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Joel Walker <jwalker17@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject:      For What It's Worth Dept.: info you really didn't need to know. ;)
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being the bozo that i are, i got to thinking ... wondered if i
could find any buses out there that came off the assembly line
together. well, not too many folks like the idea of sending their
vin out over the list, or even to somebody like me, so i decided
to see what i could find from the want ads on the internet. not
too many ads even had the vin .. but now and then, several in
www.traderonline.com or www.thesamba.com did. so i started
keeping the vins and other info about the bus in a spreadsheet.

<drum roll>

found two that are sequential.

now, oddly enough, they are both automatics. both are orly blue
metallic (that figures ... cheaper to paint a string of buses the
same color than to change the paint in the paint shop for every
bus). one is a camper and the other one ...well ... some dealers
give you more info that others. it might be a camper, or it might
not be ... hard to tell from the price.

but both are in los angeles, california area. but i suppose that
could be logical, too ... load up a boat with buses for the west
coast, send it through the panama canal, and first place it's
gonna dock? LA.

anyway, i thought it was kinda interesting. at first, i thought
it was the same bus, just being resold at a different dealer. but
the vins are slightly different in the check codes.and the miles
are different.
1990 Vanagon GL (camper?), Orly Blue Metallic, automatic
transmission, 113,000 miles,
          WV2TB0255 LG 119675
1990 Vanagon Camper GL, Orly Blue Metallic, automatic
transmission, 55,000 miles,
          WV2TB0257 LG 119676

how bout that. :)
unca joel