Date:         Fri, 10 Jul 1998 15:24:45 -0400
Reply-To:     Bryan Feddish <bfeddish@NETREACH.NET>
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From:         Bryan Feddish <bfeddish@NETREACH.NET>
Subject:      Re: Why so many '84 & '85 Westies??
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> Since I have been shopping for a Westfalia I have been
> focused largely on the for sale ads here and elsewhere.
> I have not been keeping statistical data but it looks
> to me like a disproportionate number of Westfalias for
> sale are '84s and '85s.  This is the same years as the
> 1.9L waterboxer, right?  Is there any reason for this
> correspondence?
>

There is a chart out there somewhere (I think Limbo has it) that shows how
many vans were sold in the U.S. each year from '80 to '91.  There were a LOT
of vans sold in the first 5 years of the 80's and dropped pretty sharply
afterwards.  I think from '87 on the sales dropped dramatically.  Maybe
someone from Limbo can post that data for us.

Bryan