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Subject:Re: Found a Binz Crewcab
From:David Easterwood
Date:Mon, 10 Jun 1996 17:34:27 -0400

>What's the deal on Binz Crew Cab's as opposed to others? Was this a
>retrofit in the US? I've heard of these before, but I've never understood
>that there were so many. I always assumed that Binz was a dealership or
>something. Inquiring minds want to know.
>
>Bren

Binz was a coach company that took VW single cabs and made them into 
crewcabs.  They were made before VW produced crewcabs themselves (VW 
started making them in 1959).  Some identifying marks are a suicide 
rear passenger door with wide popout window, a short indentation on 
the side gates (they were cut down and re-welded single cab gates), 
and the forward truck bed seam on the driver side.

Dave