Date:         Sun, 28 Jul 2002 15:39:14 -0400
Reply-To:     Timothy Crooks <eungkeupsil@COMCAST.NET>
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From:         Timothy Crooks <eungkeupsil@COMCAST.NET>
Subject:      Re: What is your dream van? Friday Topic
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Start with the body of my 90 GL, take out the wasserboxer and put in a
marine grade V6 2 Cycle Evinrude  240 engine from an outboard.  Mount the
engine vertically (a 2 cycle and be turned to just about any angle) Hook
this up to the radiator and cooling system.  (this is only a dream, right?)
Scrap the Amish 3 speed auto trans for a 5 speed with a Hurst shift.  Add
16" Aluminum alloy wheels.  Reinforce the body with sheet metal from a
land-rover, add sycro suspension and final-drive.  Take a VIN sticker  and
dash plate from an old diesel from a junk yard, replace the current ones I
have, put a sticker over the fuel cap "Diesel Only."  Redo the interior with
the same Vanagon GL package that came with the original, just to keep
things in a bit of reality.

The method to my madness:
2 cycles are lighter, more power efficient, having a power stroke each time
the piston rises.  No crankcase+no oil changes, less moving parts.  The
trannie speaks for itself.  The diesel stickers are so I could be exempt
from the NJDMV Hindenberg emissions inspection.  The Land rover
reinforcement is to keep the geezers here in God's waiting room (Ocean
County, NJ) from wrecking into mine as they obliviously drive their Buicks
Centuries, or Plymouth Breezes down in the left-had lane (drifting into the
centre lane).  It will also help bullet-proof me for my weekend trips to
Flushing, and during "Shotgun Week" deer season when all the worst, drunken,
lazy marksmen try to score that prize buck in my backyard.

The outboard engine will also have that sound, and smell, that make driving
to work feel like I am going fishing.  (Work?  Oh s**t, the dream is over
and I awoke in a Neon!!!! It is now a nightmare, or someone slipped
something into my drink.  HELP!!!!!

Tim
1990 Vanagon GL
Barnegat, NJ, where we drive on the Parkway and park on the driveway.




----- Original Message -----
From: "80 Westy Pokey" <pokey@VANAGON.ORG>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 06:54
Subject: What is your dream van? Friday Topic


> Most of us have a dream van that they would love to come
> across in a barn one day, or the last 30 seconds of a no
> reserve, underviewed, eBay aution.
>
> Mine is a Red and White 1963 VW "Samba". In particular,
> built between January and August of 1963 so it would have
> the more powerful 1500 engine and the full 23 (instead of
> 21) windows.
>
> What's yours?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris