MAtt, I would argue that the air-cooled 1600 is MORE reliable than any other VW engine. Easy to fix, less systems, less complicated!! Buy it!! Peace, John Baker
On Thu, 22 Nov 2001 12:05:02 -0500 "Faust, Melissa G" <moby@INFOBLVD.NET> wrote: Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I'm killing the day planning my next VW project... I'm looking at a 62' bus to purchase and use for a daily driver. I'm not real familiar with the air cooled vw's, especially old buses. The body is solid(from georgia), with a 1600 engine. The engine and trans are in fine working order. I am in NC so I don't care about lack of heat etc. I can do all the required work myself, but I really don't know what kind of reliablilty I could expect from this vehicle. I plan to mechanically rebuild the bus, but keep the cost down by forgetting cosmetics for now. Any ideas /thoughts /information would be helpful. Thanks Matt |
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