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Date:         Wed, 25 Apr 2001 08:36:38 -0700
Reply-To:     Donna Stewart <DStewart@chrm.com>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Donna Stewart <DStewart@chrm.com>
Subject:      Re: Bosch not German?
Comments: To: dmc@cyburban.com
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Check your window glass - in my dad's 86 Quantum it was made here.  I also read someplace that in the 50s/60s VW was buying the steel for the cars/vans from the U.S.  


>>> Dave M <dmc@cyburban.com> 04/25/01 04:00AM >>>
>> Incidentally one of the VW hoses that I recently bought was marked
"Avon,
>> England", so everything that goes into a VW is not German.
>>
>Very true, check this one out:  One of the bigger shockers I've noticed
>on several VWs of 80's vintage is the a/c condensor (the a/c 'radiator'
>that sits in front of the regular radiator) on my Vanagon and both my
>Quantums were made in Japan!!  Isn't there a law against that?  Perhaps
>even a law of nature??
>
I just got a new Bosch fuel filter - made in SPAIN.
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