on 3/22/00 12:59 PM, JordanVw@aol.com at JordanVw@aol.com wrote:

In a message dated 3/22/00 9:26:45 AM Eastern Standard Time,
todd@LARKBOOKS.COM writes:

<< What's the difference between a standard weekender and the Wolfsburg
weekender? What does GL stand for?

of course i have something to say on this, as usual :<)

a "weekender" is a interior package offered on the 7 passenger hardtop
vanagon that has the back seat that folds down into a queen size bed, and
the seatbacks of the middle seat fold forward. that's it.

a "wolfsburg" vanagon is one that has the wolfsburg badge. :<) they always
had a bed in the back. whether it be a 7 pass hardtop, or a '85-'86 Non - GL
poptop westy, or a '84 full GL westy wolfsburg....

if you think about it, the only true "wolfsburg weekender" would be an '84 7
pass wolfsburg ed. all the others were '85-'86 westy weekenders, and the '87
up wolfsburgs were all 7 pass hardtop vans w/ the carat style interior (w/
jumpseats/flip out table)

and "GL" means different things from year to year. i had a '83.5 9 pass GL.
had vinyl seats. i have another 83.5 7 pass GL. has velour seats. i had a
'84 GL with black bumpers..had one w/ chrome.... GL usually means a slightly
better trim line, but it varies.

confused???? good :<) i think that's the way VW intended.. :<)

chris
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I am certain beyond a breath of doubt that all of this is technically
correct.  But when there are owners out there with Westfalias with a pared
down kitchen of many sorts, and they are all calling them weekenders, you
may as well go with the flow.

TJK

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