>The curious part is that the fellow swears that the old man bought it in
1982.
>He is trying to find out if the family still has it.
>I know that we didn't get syncros in north america until 86, but I think I
>read something about syncros built in 1979?  It was in a book called "Das
>Buch".  It was a kind of factory yearbook that was put out for VW factory
>employees.  A german friend of mine showed it to me, but I cannot read
>german. . .
The first Syncros were built pre '79 with the body of the pre '79 Bus.
But only five or so were built by VW for testing. Tom Niksch has details

Helmut
'80 Vanagaudi