Wow, this is interesting!  My van IS white, but it was repainted.  I'll
check with a pervious owner who repainted it to find out if they did away
with the blue stripe!  This would make sense, esp with the stamp from Genova
(italia???).
That would be a cool way to buy a VW! Now they just include trek bikes, or
other gimmicks.
Brian

>From: "Joel Walker" <jwalker17@earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: "Joel Walker" <jwalker17@earthlink.net>
>To: "Brian Cochran" <rangerbrian@HOTMAIL.COM>
>Subject: Re:      Interesting things in glovebox,VW orgins,
>"joker"...wolfburg, etc.
>Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 22:16:30 -0600
>
>
>sounds to me like you've got one of those
>buy-it-and-pick-it-up-at-the-factory deals. years ago, vw would let
>you purchase the camper here in the states (pay your local dealer),
>then fly to germany and pick up the camper, drive it around europe,
>then come back to hanover, germany, and they'd ship it back to the
>u.s.a. for you on their normal vw shipping boat.
>
>if it's white with a blue stripe, that's even more likely ... that's
>the standard color of those campers sold on those deals. and the tour
>of europe was with a guide (in another camper), herding as many as a
>dozen folks in such campers. the guide handled all the paperwork at
>the borders and gas stations and so forth.
>
>no, vw doesn't do that anymore. :(
>

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