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Title: VW Canada Fall 1953
Post by: bwaz on July 28, 2012, 05:06:51 AM

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Title: Re: VW Canada Fall 1953
Post by: Trevor P on July 28, 2012, 11:52:00 AM

Great photos Brian! :o
Do you know if they have the list of VIN#'s from those cars in the '53 CNE?

Title: Re: VW Canada Fall 1953
Post by: bwaz on July 28, 2012, 07:50:40 PM

Not likely Trevor, they have really limited info from that period. My contact at VW says they did have boxes of stuff, but when things were a little lean, they needed to consolidate warehouse space and tossed a lot of old stuff out!
Brian

Title: Re: VW Canada Fall 1953
Post by: Meisterman on July 30, 2012, 11:38:18 AM

Hey Bri,

I was reading a post on TheSamba the other day about a fellow who has uncovered one of the first Barndoor Deluxe buses to be imported for the 1952 CNE show and there is an order list posted in the thread with VIN numbers. Plus a bunch of other photos that people have researched and posted.

Here is a link to the thread:
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=510479

and here is a direct link to the image of the order list:
http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/922831.jpg

And here is another thread on TheSamba that might be of interest to you:
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=453437

If you haven't already seen this I hope it helps you uncover more information about your Split!

Cheers,

-Meisterman

[note] On another read of that second thread I see that you've posted in it, so obviously already know about it...but I'll leave the link here for others to use.