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Subject:Re: no more South African vanagons....farewell..
From:Mary Beth and Chris Geiser
Date:Tue, 6 Aug 2002 22:05:07 -0500

...and recycle serial numbers off people's old van's to avoid
registration / emission / crash test hassles...

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf
Of Barry E. Muller
Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 9:38 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: no more South African vanagons....farewell..

> The Vanagon styling IS retro.....another 5 years and
> soccer moms everywhere will KILL to have a van with
> "vanogon styling"
>
> So what is VW SA going to do with all the body part
> molds, presses and stuff

Lets see - some industrious person should get them and build more a la
the
AC Cobra and Lotus 11 (or is that 7? <shrug>) model.  Any rate, sell 'em
with 1.9 TDIs for about $20K for the MV version and they'd probably do a
"land office business" if an informal survey of comments on this list
are
any indication.

bem

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