------ Forwarded Message From: bueses <bueses@earthlink.net> Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 15:52:53 -0600 To: Max Wellhouse <maxjoyce@IPA.NET> Subject: Re: Other Volkswagens > I thought the early ones were nicknamed "barndoor" buses due to the > fact that their back hatch opened at the bumper and swung all the way > up to the roof hinges. Guessing that lsted til the mid 590's or > so. Barndoor buses ended production in March 1955. Pressed bumper buses were both barndoor & 55 thru 58 buses. In 59 they went to the bigger/heavier bumpers w/ overriders.
The "barndoor opened below the window at the belt course on later models, on early barndoors, 1950-52? +- there was no rear window at all, but the top of the door was still at the belt course.
Uhoh! started a thread I didn't mean to get involved in. Tom ------ End of Forwarded Message |
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