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 Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 4:00 pm Post subject: 1989 syncro vanagon twins consecutive #'s and dove blue |
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| today i was searching for paint code info on my one syncro,,so i looked at my other syncro,,,both 1989-s,,well there i was looking so i looked at the vin #'s 011655 then 011656,,the last digits same color dove blue,,,now i got twins,,a pair,,small world,,and both very nice and yes same color,,amazing,,separated at birth ,,,joined again in Pennsylvania,,i guess simply amazing or syncro amazing stuff |
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insyncro
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D Clymer
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That's pretty amazing on several levels. First of all, that they both ended up being US spec Syncros, Secondly, that they have both survived 22 years, and lastly that you ended up owning both of them without even trying to.
Post some pics.
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vwlovr
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yeah, pics or it didn't happen. 
seriously. very cool. |
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noganav
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My two are only 200 apart, which I thought was a miracle until I heard this.
Wow!
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DAIZEE
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WOW that's spooky! I am a distant 2nd or 3rd cousin, 2WD 83.5 but dove blue also (a Wa State van). A distant distant cousin. Pics please.
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ALIKA T3
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Oh,that's killer!!
I got a friend in France who had the same happened on an Audi that he bought for fixing up his rides.Same color and everything,just one number different into the VIN number,he didn't even bother to modify the numbers,he claimed a printing error at the french DMV
Bravo!
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IrideWheelies
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I just ran outside to check the vin on my Dove Blue 89' Syncro GL and guess what!
It's over 2000 off of your VINs.  Darn, I had this feeling that I was going to have the next one in sequence.
Did either of yours come with a diff lock? Mine didn't and a lot of the other 89's I see don't have one either. VW was trying to save some money in 89 or something. Bummer for me.
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Zeitgeist 13
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My '80 Vanagon had a door tag indicating that it was built in 1979. The VIN# was 25A0008082. Does that mean it was number 8082 Vanagon ever built, or am I misinterpreting the VIN decoders?
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Jamos
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That's pretty amazing about your twins! At first I thought you were going to say that you saw one for sale somewhere that was one # off of your VIN, but definitely NOT that you owned both unknowingly!
For VIN info, check it out:
http://www.vanagon.com/info/vin/index.htm
It says it's for '81-'91, but I would guess that a VIN from '80 could be interpreted similarly...?
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kamzcab86
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 Wow, the odds of that happening are incredibly slim. Very cool!
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| My '80 Vanagon had a door tag indicating that it was built in 1979. The VIN# was 25A0008082. Does that mean it was number 8082 Vanagon ever built...? |
Yes indeed.
25 is the model
A is for 1980
00 are safety equipment and internal check codes
08082 is the sequential number
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fastwagens
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| Amazing. And wierd. |
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Zeitgeist 13
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| kamzcab86 wrote: |
Wow, the odds of that happening are incredibly slim. Very cool!
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| My '80 Vanagon had a door tag indicating that it was built in 1979. The VIN# was 25A0008082. Does that mean it was number 8082 Vanagon ever built...? |
Yes indeed.
25 is the model
A is for 1980
00 are safety equipment and internal check codes
08082 is the sequential number
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Thanks, I certainly thought it was an early one. I'm sorta surprised that we were shipped vehicles that early in the production cycle.
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| Thats really amazing! Well now you can't sell it anymore They will forever be a sold as a set...lol. Like twins separated at birth and meeting up later in life......"so what have you been up to all these years?...." |
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jbart
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| Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 10:52 am Post subject: Re: 1989 syncro vanagon twins consecutive #'s and dove blue |
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| today i was searching for paint code info on my one syncro,,so i looked at my other syncro,,,both 1989-s,,well there i was looking so i looked at the vin #'s 011655 then 011656,,the last digits same color dove blue,,,now i got twins,,a pair,,small world,,and both very nice and yes same color,,amazing,,separated at birth ,,,joined again in Pennsylvania,,i guess simply amazing or syncro amazing stuff |
or they were both stolen and had new VINs applied
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