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Subject:Re: anyone know why '89 carat/wolfsburgs didnt have the curtain kits?
From:Jason Kirk
Date:Tue, 5 Oct 2004 11:05:04 -0700

It was amazing foresight on VWAG's part. They knew that one day, several
years down the road it would make a good topic of conversation, leading
to all kinds of speculation and talk of conspiracy theories on the
Vanagon ML's of the world. Thank you VW, for giving me a reason to use
my keyboard again.

Jason
'87 Weekender (with factory curtain kit)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On
Behalf Of
> JordanVw@AOL.COM
> Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 9:10 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: anyone know why '89 carat/wolfsburgs didnt have the curtain
kits?
>
> so when vw introduced the 7 pass wolfsburg with the "Carat" style
> weekender
> interior (rear facing jumpseats, flip out sidetable, etc) in '87, they
> came
> stock with the snap in privacy curtains.. (the 4 curtain kit in the
white
> plastic
> bag)..
> They had the privacy curtains on all '87 wolfsburgs, 88 wolfsburgs,
and
> '90
> and '91 Carats..... but not on '89's for some reason....so does anyone
> know why
> the '89 Carats and Wolfsburgs didnt have the snap in privacy curtain
kit?
>
> anyone care to take a guess?
>
> chris

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