<div dir="auto">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. </div><div dir="auto">Dave Hall, VW Type 3&4 Club UK. </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 29 Apr 2025 at 22:01, Max Welton <<a href="mailto:max.welton.2k@gmail.com">max.welton.2k@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Sure. I understand about the notches. But I was curious about the breakdown<br>
of squares vs fasties.<br>
<br>
I would expect there to have been more squares sold on account of the more<br>
utilitarian layout. But our tiny sample breaks fairly even between the two<br>
styles.<br>
<br>
Max<br>
<br>
<br>
On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 2:47 PM Jeff Palmer <<a href="mailto:w.jeff.palmer@icloud.com" target="_blank">w.jeff.palmer@icloud.com</a>><br>
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<br>
> Or Canada.<br>
> Jeff<br>
><br>
> Sent from my iPhone<br>
><br>
> > On Apr 29, 2025, at 12:07 PM, William Hoyer <<a href="mailto:wjhoyer@gmail.com" target="_blank">wjhoyer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> > I don't think the production numbers will tell you why Notchbacks are<br>
> lower<br>
> > in the USA. Notchbacks were not sold in US VW dealers like fastbacks &<br>
> > square backs. The 1 we have was a lefthand drive delivered to England so<br>
> my<br>
> > guess is that a service member ordered it with the intent on bringing it<br>
> to<br>
> > the US. VW can tell you the dealer who got it but not history of what<br>
> > happened after that. Notchs seem to be growing in numbers, there were 8<br>
> at<br>
> > the NW vintage meet 2 years ago so people seem to be bringing them from<br>
> > Europe.<br>
> ><br>
> >> On Tue, Apr 29, 2025, 8:42 AM Max Welton <<a href="mailto:max.welton.2k@gmail.com" target="_blank">max.welton.2k@gmail.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
> >><br>
> >> Looking at the 2026 Invasion list, I'm noticing the proportion of<br>
> Fastbacks<br>
> >> and Squarebacks (6 fasty's and 7 squares) and one T34. I would have<br>
> thought<br>
> >> Squarebacks to be the more common of the type-3s. I would assume the<br>
> >> numbers of surviving cars would roughly follow production numbers. Does<br>
> >> someone have actual production numbers?<br>
> >><br>
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