>> Water cooled Vanagons have been available from 1980 on.
>> However these were of the diesel variety.

>I should have been more specific.  My Canadian customer's alleged 1982
>Vanagon is a 1.9L wasserboxer.  This I can confirm because I have
shipped
>him parts for it.
>-Ron Salmon
> The Bus Depot

Ron's right again, the 1.9 waterboxers 60 & 78 hp were delivered in
europe from
10/82 (official date), from that date aircooled was history for us.
But as carburated engines they didn't pass the smog laws in US, always
w/o cat.
So you still got the 2.0 aircooled injections until the 1.9 digijets
arived
(option in europe).
Sounds strange, but that's it.

Michael
Germany, 20 mls from Wolfsburg
58 split
77 westy 2.0 carb
90 caravelle digifant