JordanVw@AOL.COM wrote:
>
> In a message dated 10/15/99 12:34:58 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> s.overmyer@UWS.EDU.AU writes:
>
> << Really? Hmmm,as far as I understood the Type2 was an official
>  designation up the the end of the Waterboxer's production run in '92 >>
>
> never heard that before..   anyone else verify this?   Dont think it would
> make any sense that they would call the vanagon both the type 2 and the type
> 3 at the same time.....everything that i've read, been told, and have learned
> says that type 2 production ended in '79.
>
> also, vw vans badged as "transporters" usually were "no frills" baseline, or
> utility versions.
>
> but, in the land down under, things could be different..  :<)
> hey...are they still making the ford falcon over there?  my dad has a '63
> model... ;<)
> chris

I think every Vanagon carried a 247/8 or 257/8 "type" designation code
just like bays and splits.........thus type 2!

        JP