Tom,
Thanks for the info.
I too have spent time in Bosnia, two tours of
duty.
I have some pictures of the destroyed remains of =
the VW
plant.
It was completely destroyed during the war and =
is still
just a pile of ruins.
This factory was in worse shape than the photos =
of
Wolfsburg at the end of the war.
From my understanding and what I was told by the =
locals
the plant in Sarajevo only produced the VW Caddy or the Rabbit pick-up =
as it was
known over here.
There are a huge amount of VW's there most of =
them were
brought in to the country by returning "guest workers", people who had =
worked
abroad as laborers.
There is quiet the hand me down cycle in =
Germany, as a
vehicle becomes 5 or 6 yeas old it is sold off.
They are sold off to buyers from other eastern =
European
countries were the pollution and mechanical standards are =
lower.
So the older it gets the farther east it goes =
until it
ends up in Russia.
I remember that the most prized car was the =
Rabbit and
Golf (MK2 if they were wealthy) diesel.
They really loved the durability an longevity of =
these
cars.
But they drove like madmen on the =
roads.
The roads were often more dangerous than the
fighting!
But the most dangerous job in the whole country =
was as a
fuel truck driver.
Diesel during the war sold for 200DM per
liter!
It was in Sarajevo during the war that I first =
heard of
Bio-diesel.
I remember seeing these beat up old Rabbit =
diesels running
around and when they drove buy you, all you could smell was French
fries!
If you liked older VW's Bosnia was the place to =
find
them.
Cheers
Glen
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 =
7:39
AM
Subject: Re: [Syncro] Where is
Poznan?
Poznan is in Poland. =
Interesting.
When
I was in Bosnia a couple of years ago, Vanagons were everywhere. Tons =
of them,
clearly the predominent light truck and van.
I
asked, and it turned out VW had a Vanagon plant there too, before the =
civil
war. I saw a few Syncros , but not a lot, and of course they could =
have been
built elsewhere.
Tom
F.