Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:13:51 -0700
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: 1984 for sale
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an 87 Wolfsburg is a very special model, in my opinion.
I love mine.
it's the first version of what became the Carat.
but unlike a Carat ..they don't have the body cladding down the whole side,
which is very nice.
there have lower springs, from the factory.
fiberglass bumpers, front air dam , alloy wheels
and usually a full compliment of deluxe features .
tach, central locking, AC etc.
Auto trans and power windows would be options..and not desirable ones
particularly for me.
they are a real 'sports car' of a Vanagon . Just plain fun to drive.
I sure would never get rid of an 87 Wolfsburg to keep an 7 passenger 84
..unless it was to pocket the $ from the sale. The 87 Wolfsburg is better
in every way ..
unless you think the lower ground clearance is an issue.
how nice that you have such abundance in vanagons !
Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Duntz" <eduntz@HOTMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 8:01 PM
Subject: Re: 1984 for sale
>I guess for the purposes of the Samba, I would list a Vanagon under Type 2
> bus '68 and up. The Vanagon is the third generation of the Type 2. (Type 2
> T3, or Transporter 3). Some people mistakenly identify T3 as Type 3, which
> is something entirely different. The T3 is the Vanagon, T4 the Eurovan,
> the
> T5 the newest Eurovan in Europe. Type 3 is the notchback/fastback.
>
> By the way, that Vanagon you listed is just like the one I bought last
> fall.
> It's an '84, same two-tone brown, manual transmission. I also paid $800,
> and
> then put about $1,000 into exhaust and a few other things to get it
> running
> well. I didn't need it, but I seem to be drawn to two-tone Vanagons. I
> might
> put a z-bed in the back and use it as my "back-up" camper, and get rid of
> my
> '87 Wolfsburg. I really don't want to. I've been adding Vanagons over the
> last ten years. I don't think I would know how to deal with getting rid of
> a
> Vanagon. Even the '85 Westfalia that was wrecked two years ago is still
> sitting in my driveway, waiting for me to finish parting it out. (I
> replaced
> it with a nearly identical '85 in better shape.)
>
> Ed
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