David Cooper wrote: > In a message dated 01/19/2001 7:12:18 PM Pacific Standard Time, > mwsnow@HOME.COM writes: > > > >> ps If you think an automatic aircooled Vanagon loses power on >> hills, try >> merging onto an expressway in a Diesel. >> > > > Power? Hills? Expressway? These strange terms are so foreign to > me? What > do they mean? > David Cooper > 82 Aircooled Westy Wonder Wagon "The Brick Bullet" "merging" is not really the correct term for this maneuver. I drove a 79 rabbit diesel for a few years, and I can only imagine that engine in a vanagon. Getting on the freeway was more like dropping a rock in a river than joining a flow... Chris |
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