> Btw, when is Vanagon Day? Is it the day the first one came off the line? > The > day the first one was sold? We need to settle this... and come up with an > appropriate celebration of our holiday. > Might be hard to figure out when the first one was sold, but I'm fairly certain they switched the Hannover line from T2 to T3 mid-year 1979.... ...Yep, various secondary references indicate that T2 production ended in sometime in July '79, and T3 began in August. They probably refitted the line for 2 weeks or so in between, with the first T3's rolling off early in August. That's the best I could manage between the archives and Google. Someone at VW probably knows the exact date. -- John Bange '90 Vanagon - "Geldsauger" |
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