Does anybody know if there is some kind of registry of chassis/engine numbers which you can use to identify what year the chassis/engine was manufactured?

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/archives/info/ 

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/archives/info/bugchassisdating.php 

[ Edited on 23-4-2007 by mackaymanx ]

John Muir's book, How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive, A Manual of Step by Step Procedures for the Compleat Idiot, has a comprehensive list of engine and chassis numbers in it.

Whats your numbers
as it may be an Aussie model which wont show up up in the crap above