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Subject:Re: How many 2wd Vanagons were assembled in Gratz?
From:Ari Ollikainen
Date:Thu, 8 Oct 1998 08:06:15 -0700

At 10:53 AM 10/8/98, SyncroHead@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 98-10-08 02:17:13 EDT, Ari@OLTECO.COM writes:
>
>> Seeing this post and being the owner of a 2WD Vanagon GL Camper
>>          with a Gratz assembly code prompts me to ask the subject line
>>          question. And how many other listmembers have a 2WD Vanagon
>>          assembled in Gratz?
>
>The original message did not say that it was 2WD, so it could have beena
>Syncro.  The only other Graz made 2WD Vanagons I've seen have all been 1991
>models.  I speculated that by then the Hanover plant had switched over to the
>T4 Eurovan and had SDP in Austria finish up the last of the production run of
>1991 model T3 vans.
>
>The original message was however about a 1987  model.  If it really really is
>a 2WD '87 made in Graz, it shoots big holes in my theory!
>

        My Graz-made 2WD Vanagon GL Camper is a "90" model manufactured
        during the 1991 model year run (11/90).

        So the Graz 2WDs are "rare"?

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