

| Subject: | Re: kombi rides again in NZ |
| From: | Andrew Grebneff |
| Date: | Sun, 20 Nov 2005 14:39:03 +1300 |
"Volkswagen launched the original four-cylinder Kombi van in Europe in 1949. It had a split windscreen, seating for nine, 21 windows, an air-cooled engine in the rear and was based on a 1947 design by Dutch VW importer Ben Pon. His concept was simple: he sketched a rectangle on top of the existing Beetle platform. "0 Vanagon.com 21 windows?? The Kombi didn't. Only the Samba/Microbus did, and the really early ones of course were 23-window. The 21-window Samba only appeared with the big tailgate, in 1963 or thereabouts. Typical ignorant newsies... -- Andrew Grebneff Dunedin New Zealand Fossil preparator <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut HUMANITY: THE ULTIMATE VON NEUMANN MACHINE DEMOCRACY: RULE BY THE LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR
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