Volkswagen starts selling Transport truck in U.S.A in the early 1950swith sales continuing through three generations and beyond 1991 model. There are those who will tell you that VW Transporters are currently highly sought after by car enthusiasts to appear here. large self-service car graveyards that I frequentBut they are not right. We saw a second generation Transporter at the Colorado yard last year and now this is third generation model currently residing in a facility in South Carolina.
The T3 Transporter first appeared in the United States as a 1980 model and was badged as the Vanagon. The name is a combination of “van” and “wagon”, continuing VW’s stubbornness over the decades Throw your passenger truck like station wagon (to be fair, Detroit did the same thing with passenger vans). When Toyota tries to sell an Americanized version belong to MasterAce surfing with the “Van Wagon” badge here for 1984, Volkswagen’s lawyers forced them to change the name to simply the Toyota Van.
Gasoline Vanagons had air-cooled engines until 1983 (a powerful 49-horsepower water-cooled diesel was available in the Vanagon in 1982 and 1983), but we A radiator can be seen in the nose of this van. What is the deal?
The construction tag indicates it has begun life in Hanover, West Germany It’s a 1982 model with a 2.0-liter gas-burning engine, so it’s definitely a must have boxer exchange later. I saw an ’81 Vanagon with a similar conversion in Colorado a few months ago.
The engine was snatched by a junkyard buyer before I arrived.
Unusually, this truck has an optional automatic transmission. The water-cooled VW engines that were most likely swapped into this truck have under 100 horsepower and a curb weight of nearly 3,100 pounds, so this machine will be very, very slow acceleration.
Jim Hudson is still selling new cars in Columbiaalthough not today’s Volkswagens.
It turns out that the Vanagon shares the same wheel bolt pattern as the Vanagon’s Mercedes-Benz W123. Only one of these wheels is installed, but it looks cool.
It’s rust-free and the interior probably isn’t too bad in its pre-factory state, but the cost to restore one of these trucks can be steep.
Basically a European luxury car. You want to avoid the hills with a seven-passenger diesel Vanagon.
Vanagon focuses on performance.
The room of a truck. The comfort of a station wagon. There is a cunning dig at Recent Detroit compact wagons in this ad.
