[T3] Production Numbers

[Keith Park]

Good to hear from our Buddy across the pond!

Keith


Subject: Re: [T3] Production Numbers

I don’t recall the production numbers but I have various totals in official VW publications. I will look at those and report back. Notches had gentler lives than Squares, so though fewer were made, more Notches have survived.
Squares had most numbers made.
Dave Hall, VW Type 3&4 Club UK.

On Tue, 29 Apr 2025 at 22:01, Max Welton <max.welton.2k at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sure. I understand about the notches. But I was curious about the 
> breakdown of squares vs fasties.
>
> I would expect there to have been more squares sold on account of the 
> more utilitarian layout. But our tiny sample breaks fairly even 
> between the two styles.
>
> Max
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 2:47 PM Jeff Palmer <w.jeff.palmer at icloud.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Or Canada.
> > Jeff
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > > On Apr 29, 2025, at 12:07 PM, William Hoyer <wjhoyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I don't think the production numbers will tell you why Notchbacks 
> > > are
> > lower
> > > in the USA. Notchbacks were not sold in US VW dealers like 
> > > fastbacks & square backs. The 1 we have was a lefthand drive 
> > > delivered to England
> so
> > my
> > > guess is that a service member ordered it with the intent on 
> > > bringing
> it
> > to
> > > the US. VW can tell you the dealer who got it but not history of 
> > > what happened after that. Notchs seem to be growing in numbers, 
> > > there were 8
> > at
> > > the NW vintage meet 2 years ago so people seem to be bringing them 
> > > from Europe.
> > >
> > >> On Tue, Apr 29, 2025, 8:42 AM Max Welton 
> > >> <max.welton.2k at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Looking at the 2026 Invasion list, I'm noticing the proportion of
> > Fastbacks
> > >> and Squarebacks (6 fasty's and 7 squares) and one T34. I would 
> > >> have
> > thought
> > >> Squarebacks to be the more common of the type-3s. I would assume 
> > >> the numbers of surviving cars would roughly follow production numbers.
> Does
> > >> someone have actual production numbers?
> > >>
> > >> Max
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