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All VW
models have a "Type number", they are 6 digits long The first
three are the actual type number, the second batch of three are the
sales code and give some indication as to what to expect o each vehicle.
Same as
with other VW systems they are quite logical in the way they are laid
out.
VW T3 vans are known as Type 2's, this is VW speak for a commercial
vehicle.
VW T3 type numbers sometimes get inaccurately shortened to type 25,
this is nonsense as a pick up or crew cab start with 24! why leave our
pick up brethren out?!
Anyway,
only the first 3 digits of the 6 digit type number are generally of
any use. They are listed below.
I have not bothered to list the full 6 digits as to be frank there are
far too many!
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245(LHD)
246(RHD)
Pickup.
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245(LHD)
246(RHD)
Pickup
with wide body
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245(LHD)
246(RHD)
Pickup
syncro
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247(LHD)
248(RHD)
Double
cab pickup, crew cab, Doka.
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251(LHD)
252(RHD)
Delivery
van, or panel van.
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251(LHD)
252(RHD)
Hi
top delivery van.
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253(LHD)
254(RHD)
Kombi, basically a panelvan with windows.
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253(LHD)
254(RHD)
Kombi hi top
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255(LHD)
256(RHD)
Caravelle,
same as a Kombi but with a minibus interior.
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255(LHD)
256(RHD)
Caravelle
syncro.
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255(LHD)
256(RHD)
Multivan.
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255(LHD)
256(RHD)
Caravelle
carat.
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Foot
notes:
Hightops.
As far as I am aware the hi-top models were not available in the
UK in panel van form,don't know why. The only versions we did get were
very late Kombi's, generally 1990 onwards, Holdsworth used them for
their camper conversion.
VW also did a high top panel van with an extended height sliding door,
no bobbing down to get in, sadly we didn't get these either.
Please don't get the factory hi-tops confused with vans that have
been converted in this country,I have seen them when I have been abroad.
The tops are very distinctive and very well made, an I should imagine
very heavy!
Pickups.
The extended wooden platform pickups and crew-cabs weren't available
either. Although they are listed and produced in RHD form we didn't
get them! The
wooden platform was made by Westfalia, the camper people! Also worth
noting is that the extended wooden bed pick ups and crewcabs came with
longer mirrors! The mirrors we're left over bay window (T2) items with
new brackets to fix to the door.
Multivan.
Multivan was never made in Right hand Drive form
Campers.
Westfalia were the factory approved camper converters, sadly we didn't
get them in the UK. VW UK relied upon companies such as Devon. All UK
Westfalia campers are personal imports and are Left Hand Drive, There
are some 20 odd RHD converted Westfalias out there, converted in this
country with kits supplied by Westfalia but are purported to be of very
low quality. Once Westfalia had work back about the state of the conversions
they would no longer sell the kits.... As legend goes!
Caravelle.
VW UK stopped importing caravelles in 1990, Im not sure if VW produced
them after 1990 as production from the Hanover factory ceased in this
year. Low level production carried on till 1992 from the syncro producing
Steyr Daimler Puch factory in Graz, Austria. All Minibus's from 1990
to 1992 that were available from VW UK were converted by either Devon
motor caravans or Advance in Derby
and based on Combi models.
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