Date:         Thu, 24 Nov 2005 13:49:07 -0800
Reply-To:     John Bange <jbange@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         John Bange <jbange@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: happy thanksgiving all you TURKEYS!
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> 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"