Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 14:19:33 -0500
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From: Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject: Re: Strange place for an identification plate on 91 Vanagon.
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---- Richard Golen <rgolen@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> I guess I should have specified that the sticker is on the outside bodywork below the front passenger door...
My 1991 Volkswagen Vanagon GL Campmobile (Westy to most of you) has two identification stickers. One is on the metal below the fuse box in front of the driver's seat near the footwell. The second is on the back pillar (vertical door jamb?) of the driver's side door. Both give manufacturer information and the i.d. number. The one on the door jamb is metalized. The one under the fuse box may have originally been metalized, but it has a paper surface now, and the print is still quite legible, so I am not sure about the metal surface. There are numerous other stickers on the vehicle (both inside and outside), some of them evidently original, and some replacements. All except the sticker under the fuse box are metalized. There is no identification sticker on the outside of the vehicle, either on the door like Trevor's, or below the door like Richard suggests.
I guess this varies with year model, which particular vehicle type, with country of initial sale as Trevor suggests, and possibly on a whim at the factory. It will likely remain a mystery to most of us.
DMc
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> > Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:19:05 -0500
> > From: mcneely4@COX.NET
> > Subject: Re: Strange place for an identification plate on 91 Vanagon.
> > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> >
> > ---- Richard Golen <rgolen@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > That plate, actually a metalic sticker, is found on every Vanagon Westfalia. It is the factory serial plate.
> > >
> > > Ric
> > > Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 10:53:44 -0600
> > > > From: gneiss9@GMAIL.COM
> > > > Subject: Strange place for an identification plate on 91 Vanagon.
> > > > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> > > >
> >
> > What trevor said was that the sticker (plate) is on the _outside_ of the passenger door. I don't think he said (or implied) that the sticker itself was anything out of the ordinary, just its placement. DMc
> >
> > > > My vanagon has it's Identification Plate on the outside of the
> > > > passenger door. I know this is not common but am wondering if anyone
> > > > else has seen this before? My Van spent most of it's life in Japan,
> > > > (imported only a year ago into N.America) and can only assume that
> > > > this is a regulation in Japan for foreign vehicles!?!
> > > >
> > > > http://s1003.photobucket.com/albums/af155/onsight2003/?
> > > > action=view¤t=DSCN6607.jpg
> > > >
> > > > Trevor Reynolds
> > > >
> > > > '91 GL 2Wheel drive, AT, Westy "SEN".
> > > > http://westfalia-91restore.blogspot.com/
> > >
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