Earliest syncro - have we done this?

[silverbullet]

I did a search and couldn't find a thread so I'll wade in with our 1.9 Caravelle GG 048567 which has a date "am GRAZ" of 13.2.1986 on the blue "Freigabe" ticket. Is this the export ticket? Shame the service book and manual have gone walkabout
G date code puts it's build in December '85.

[peasant]

I think the earliest Syncro still on the road belongs to Christoph Boltze (who occasionally posts here too). If I remember correctly, his vehicle (an 85) is a pre-production one and was featured in the VW promotional literature on the launch of the Syncro

[KarlT]

Earliest Righty then?

[twiggy]

mine is registered May 86 so quite early, but no trophy.

just checked mine is GG 063483 and was registered in UK on 1st may 1986.

twigs

[silverbullet]

Earliest Righty then?

Should have said that it's a RHD 256 (twin slider)

[Rogue Trooper]

Mine was registered 01/Aug/86 but may have been built in 1985!!

[silverbullet]

It's all about the date code and chassis number, Rogue...check your vin against the info at Brickyard

[Matflint]

I think I have one of the earliest as it comes up as February 1985 off the chassis number

but if Im reading the Fahrzeugbrief right it wasn't registered till 30.06.86

Does that sound right?

[syncropaddy]

If you really need this information go the the VW Museum with all your details and €30. They will issue you with a birth certificate like the one I got for my Multivan >>HERE<< The information on the Brickyard is very close but only 99% accurate.
My Multivan lay in the factory for just over a year before it was bought so it is possible for Mattflint's to be made in 85 and registered in 86.

[KarlT]

Found these.
This was the earliest ever T3 syncro.
Was built by VW R&D department to show the bosses.





Had the worlds first in-car GPS system. It would give direction (ie North, east, etc) & distance to pre-programmed location.

[syncropaddy]

i saw that Syncro at S25 as well. Did anybody else crawl underneath to see what they could see?

[Russel]

That white syncro is not the earliest syncro. The very first few had fuel filler axes like an early bay window.
Russel

[silverbullet]

The white expedition concept (for want of a better name) - is the "gps" system what they called Digifix system? I know someone with a unique last-off-the-line scirocco that has the all-electronic dash which i though was called Digifix
What I meant when I started this topic was...what's the oldest one amongst our UK (or rhd) numbers and where would mine sit on the list as a running, roadworthy example?

[KarlT]

That white syncro is not the earliest syncro. The very first few had fuel filler axes like an early bay window.
Russel

Ahhhh, just repeating what the guy who built it told me.
Although, to be fair, his English wasn't perfect & my german is based on 'Commando comics'!!

[Boltze]

I have to correct something. My syncro is one of the first, but not the earliest I have a pre series Caravelle GL syncro. It was made in 1984 and registered officially after beeing a press car in November 1985. The Caravelle GL started in July 1985. My syncro was uses for press release pictures, motor press tests and some internal tests.

There are around five realy pre series T25 syncro out there. Most of them in Austria. They all have a metal fuel filler flap instead the normal plastic one.

They all have the body of the models until 1984 with the old sliding door and the thick roof rails.