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Subject:Re: Bus windows
From:Thomas Buese
Date:Sat, 7 Jun 2008 10:56:01 -0600

Correctomundo!  I was talking N. American & Euro versions only.  Split
window busses-Fleetlines- were made in Brazil & I believe SA until
much later!  Then of course you have the Aus. models & the CKD NZ
versions.

Until recently, they were making WC bay windowish busses in Brazil, if
I remember correctly.
Also vanagons in SA?

YMMV,

Mr. BZ-new someone would elaborate more than I had time to!

On Jun 6, 2008, at 11:28 PM, BenT Syncro wrote:

> On 6/6/08, Thomas Buese <tombuese@comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> They were skylight windows & came in 23 & 21 window deluxe model
>> buses
>> w/ an operable skylight in the middle of the roof. There were 4 on
>> each side.  The 23 also had curved fixed windows in the rear corners
>> thru 1963 but were deleted in 64 thus the 21 window model was
>> available thru 67.
>>
>> YMMV,
>>
>> Mr. BZ
>
>
>
> Ahhh.. Mr. BZ, you mean VW buses everywhere in the world except
> Brazil and
> some places VW of Brazil supplied.
> The curved corner windows could be had in Brazil until the late
> 70's. IIRC
> they had splitties well into 1979. I saw some
> Brazilian buses in Manila which looked oddly like a bay window bus
> but had
> splittie windshields.
>
>
> BenT