Here in germany the Whitestars were only built 89/90, making it model year
90. Also the Bluestar was built that time, but in a brighter blue, not
orly-blue. Orly-blue was only available for the Limited Last Editions in �92
when the T4s were already available. Besides, the White/Bluestar was a
"Hannover Edition" with a small sign on the A-Pillars in front of the doors.
No vanagon older than model year 90 can be a genuine White/Bluestar, if the
"Star"-definition is the same in the states as here in Germany. I guess no
Star models were exported to the states...

Raimund

----- Original Message -----
From: <KENWILFY@AOL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 6:05 PM
Subject: Cool Van Sighting!

> Had a friend/customer of mine show up yesterday to bring me a '89 Mutivan
to
> work on for him.  Really nice blue van, automatic, great.
> But following him was his father in a white '87 Wolfsburg Ed Vanagon.  I
had
> just looked at this page the other day about special edition Vanagons and
I
> had thought these were only available in Europe.  But the customer told me
> that he had originally purchased the van at a dealer in PA back in '87.
> The van is called a Whitestar edition Wolfsburg and had the following neat
> features:
> 1. Body panels and bumpers were white with a black stripe to match the
color
> of the van (not silver as with a normal Wlfsbrg).
> 2. Dash was a light grey instead of black.
> 3. Kick panel under rear seat was carpeted.
> 4. An extra rectangular speaker was mounted in the plastic wall between
the
> rear facing seat and the table on the driver's side (about 4" x 10").
> 5. Seats all had this cool diaginal striping instead of being just grey.
>
> I just thought this was cool.  Only a real Vanagon freak like myself (or
some
> of you) would probably even care about this, but I thought I would share
it
> with the list.
> This guy also owns several other Vanagons including a Crew Cab pickup
(which
> I have seen before as well) and some Westies and passenger vans.
>
> Droolingly yours,
> Ken Wilford
> http://www.vanagain.com
> John 3:16
> Phone: (856)-765-1583
> Shop:   (856)-327-0027
> Fax:     (856)-327-2242
>