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Subject:Re: An Early Vanagon Ad
From:Alistair Bell
Date:Thu, 7 Mar 2013 18:44:09 -0800

B32 owner's manual shows standard vanagon instrument cluster (with digi clock)

alistair

On 2013-03-07, at 6:39 PM, Ben T wrote:

> (sigh) 
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> Rumors say as few as 11 up to 20 examples were made. Christoph has copies of the marketing brochures in vwpix.org.
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> 88 Carrera engine & trans, brakes, wheels, seats, instruments, etc. technically a Porsche, I suppose. There's one in VW's museum. Since VW now owns Porsche, it's now a VW.:-)
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> BenT
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> sent from my electronic leash
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> On Mar 7, 2013, at 6:05 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote:
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>> I read an article long ago from one of the car magazines, showing a Porsche-owned Vanagon they'd put one of their big engines in.  IIRC the article said they used it to take engineers around to conferences at obscene speeds.  My recollection was that this was a one-off, and from the '79 or '80 model year.  Confirm?  Deny?  Same or different beast?