Date:         Thu, 24 Nov 2005 23:40:34 -0600
Reply-To:     Joel Walker <jwalker17@EARTHLINK.NET>
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From:         Joel Walker <jwalker17@EARTHLINK.NET>
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.

yeah, the old buses and beetles and such were always started into
production during august.
the trick is, we need to find vin number 000001 vanagon and find out
which week in august
it was produced.

and we also need to celebrate(?observe?) the day of the LAST vanagon
produced. if we can find that out.
seems there were some still kinda hand-made up into 1992, at the Graz,
Austria plant.  anybody got any ideas
on that one?

unca joel