Date:         Sat, 16 Oct 1999 01:15:34 +0200
Reply-To:     Per Lindgren <lindgre@ONLINE.NO>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Per Lindgren <lindgre@ONLINE.NO>
Subject:      Re: "Bus" or "Vanagon"
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JordanVw@AOL.COM wrote:

> In a message dated 10/15/99 12:34:58 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> s.overmyer@UWS.EDU.AU writes:
>
> << Really? Hmmm,as far as I understood the Type2 was an official
>  designation up the the end of the Waterboxer's production run in '92 >>
>
> never heard that before..   anyone else verify this?   Dont think it would
> make any sense that they would call the vanagon both the type 2 and the type
> 3 at the same time.....everything that i've read, been told, and have learned
> says that type 2 production ended in '79.

All rear engined VW Vans are type2s, but in three different generations. The
Eurovan is the T4 because it is the 4th generation Transporter, but its not a
type2.


John wrote:

> I think every Vanagon carried a 247/8 or 257/8 "type" designation code
> just like bays and splits.........thus type 2!

The T4 part numbers usually start with 701, thus not type2! To put it very, VERY
rough, the T4 is just a boxy Golf/Passat/Audi, just as the original T1 was a boxy
Beetle.

PerL
Boxy 87 Syncro 112i
Not so boxy 73 Squareback (mini-transporter)