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Date:   Tue, 30 Nov 2004 23:58:36 +1300
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: Brazil new buses. was Re: Buying a VW and picking it up at the factory in Germany:
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>what a beauty! looks like the top is taller/higher than the old van, almost >like it's fiberglass and added on? notice that? >bob

Funny, I thought the T2 had been replaced by the T4 in Brasil.

Steel roof. I hope they don't have kingpin front stubs like the Mexican T2s, which have the same body/roof and are imported into Britain.

>There is a company in england using a loophole in their laws to bring them >in to there. I am told that the price is very high and the paperwork is >very tricky.

They are freely available there, and advertised in VolksWorld magazine.

>I spent a couple weeks in and around Rio and the east coast beaches abt 5 >yrs ago and never saw a Vanagon at all...Not a one...Just a whole bunch of >old White 70's busses...Drum brakes, upright engines in either PU or 7 pass style...

The T1 was in Brasilian production until at least 1977, to be replaced by the Bay which was produced in the 80s (and imported to NZ)... these Bays had the 50s small tailgate (with big window added), hinged 60s-type cargobay doors and 60s-type small side-windows; they also had drum front brakes and the ancient large stud-pattern... bet they had kingpins too. -- Andrew Grebneff Dunedin New Zealand Fossil preparator <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut


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