Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2016 00:19:29 +0000
Reply-To: Richard Koerner <rjkinpb@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
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From: Richard Koerner <rjkinpb@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
Subject: Re: Wrecker find today, 2wd tin top made in Austria
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Your comment.... "That silly wonderful map light? Yeah the switch can be broken by a stiff or
otherwise cadaver. Only takes a feather touch to turn on/off..."
That "feather touch" is so true; like when wiping down the interior with a moist chamois after car washing. Numerous times I noticed the light was on accidentally after doing so. With car parked in garage for many days until the next outing and not noticing, a superb candidate for dead battery.
I removed bulb, tossed into glove box, and there it remains.
Rich
San Diego
From: Phil Zimmerman <philzimm1@SHAW.CA>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2016 5:11 PM
Subject: Re: Wrecker find today, 2wd tin top made in Austria
Right or wrong a '91 2wd assembled in Graz in pretty cool.
I know of a'92 syncro weekender assembled in Graz (Valid VIN)...
Now resides in Nanaimo, BC. Sent to BC as a Dealer loaner kept in Vancouver.
Used as a weekend ski Van to Whistler as the story goes.
Perhaps mumbo-jumbo (on gerry vanagon): left over'90 Vanagons in Cali were
re-VIN'ed as'91's? Have not read where this has been validated or confirmed?
The part of this story that I believe to be true is around, the bodies were
pressed in Hannover and sent to Graz for storage and assembly as either
2wd/4wd during the'91-92 dates of manufacture.
Posses the question: were any '91-92 full-campers assembled in Graz?
As full-campers were assembled in Westphalia??
Anyone have a full-camper with a Graz initial in the VIN?
That silly wonderful map light? Yeah the switch can be broken by a stiff or
otherwise cadaver. Only takes a feather touch to turn on/off...
Anything more... takes a re-build.
Happy Fryeday
Phil z.
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On Wed, 13 Apr 2016 19:04:29 -0700, BenT <syncro@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>It is my understanding that all 90-91 T3's were assembled in Graz.
>BenT
>sent from my electronic leash
>> On Apr 13, 2016, at 6:45 PM, Alistair Bel <albell@SHAW.CA> wrote:
>> Got the chance to got to local wreckers today and found something pretty
rare, an "assembled in Austria " 2wd tin top. Year of manufacture was listed
as 91. One of the 2wd vans made in Graz when the Hannover plant switched to
T4 production.-----------
>> Alistair