I saw the weirdest VW today, any ideas what it was.

derivatives

Singlecab. Been around since the late fifties. And you don't need to be able to accelerate like a VR6 to haul a lot of stuff around...

However, since you're desperate for a little pep, this one is porsche powered:

They came in several different models. I can't remember the official name, but they were known as VW Pickups, Drop Gates, and several other names, They were part of the transporter series.

They were very useful.

Here is a photo:

I have a better photo and you can find them in many books about Air-cooled VWs.

Sold as part of the Eurovan/Transporter line as well...In Canada, we only got the dropside and single cab with the Eurovan styling from 1991-1994.5...

Very rare, and they (the dropside models) are highly valued...VW only sold about 2300 of the dropside/single cab Eurovan/Transporter vehicles from

1991-1994.5 in Canada...of course, Eurovan did much better as a passenger vehicle...IIRC, the dropside and the single cab were more expensive than the Eurovan itself...

1991-1994.5...

LOL....what I meant was that the last dropside that we had in Canada was the Eurovan styled version.

BTW I saw one still in regular service, just a few years ago in Centralia WA.

OK thats it. These trucks are so ugly that no-one should be allowed to post any pictures of them on the internet. I like VW's built in the last 10 years but these old things are ugly as hell and shouldn't even be discussed here any more. Any one who likes these old things is sick. Let focus on the new stuff and try to forget we ever saw pictures of these ugly old things OK?

As my cousin in Nova Scotia says...you don't know where you're going unless you know where you've been.

You can't move forward without identifying with the past.

Yea, they were ugly just like the original Beetle. However that is part of what made them special.

If it should be hidden because it is ugly, then someone is going to make a law to prevent me from showing my face in public. ;-)

What's what? BTW: top posting sucks big time.

so, what?

LOL!

VW built anything even close to a car in the past 10 years? For European or northern american market? Didn't notice. Hey guys, did I miss something there?

Maybe you're in the wrong group here - so better take your stinkin piece of shit current model VW and head to a WWW-based discussion board, will ya?

Yeah, sure. Do the doctors already allow you to leave the sanitarium grounds on your own again?

Why would anyone want to focus on shit - unles you're a fly?

Na, nothing's ok, you need treatment, desperately.

Ingo

Your Internet Privileges have been suspended for 24 hours while you go sit in the corner.

*Time Out*

TBerk

Come to Germany sometime, they're common as hell over here. There's a building company that shares the place that we (a couple of pals and myself) have rented for wrenching that has three company cars: one Mercedes 207D crew cab (marked for the scrapyard in a few week's time), one Vanagon kombi and one Vanagon single cab -- all of them Diesels.

Poor single cab is being punished all day, every day, with a tonne of cargo and another two tonnes on its trailer hitch. Doesn't even get real Diesel -- cooking oil must suffice. And still it's doing its job without fail. One must admire the thing, regardless of its beauty (or lack thereof). This is what Volkswagen is about, not a "New Beetle" Turbo or a Phaeton V 10 TDI.

But if you're concerned about power or creature comforts, consider the 2.1 litre, 112 bhp, automatic, synchro, air-condidioned single cab (!) they used to have at Volkswagenwerk Braunschweig's fire department when I used to have a job there (driving the snowplow no less) ten years ago ...

Yours, Erik.