Date:         Sun, 6 Oct 2002 22:20:23 -0500
Reply-To:     Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Porsche's SUV
Comments: To: Rubatoguy@MINDSPRING.COM
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There have been many interesting engine conversions that are chronicled
in the 50s to 60s Hot Rod Magazine.
I think that adapter bell housings and motor mount kits were available to
convert just about any domestic engine to domestic car that was ever
built before the late seventies.
One of the most popular conversions ever was a 48 Mercury engine
installed in any Ford or Mercury from 39-47. Pretty simple conversion.
I think Britt Grannis with Road Cow has a Toyota engine in a Bay van.
This sounds like a working combination.
I understand that many large CC Honda engines are a near bolt in for
Honda CIVICs and there are many sleepers in this category.

Stan Wilder

On Sun, 6 Oct 2002 19:54:31 -0700 Todd Last <Rubatoguy@MINDSPRING.COM>
writes:
> Bill Harrah, the casino tychoon and owner of Harrah's Auto museum in
> Reno, had had a Jeep Wagoneer fitted with a Ferrarri V12. He called
> it a
> Jerarri.  I think it may still be on display at the National Auto
> museum
> in Reno.  This was back in the '70s - so looks like he was just a
> bit
> ahead of his time.
>
> Todd
> '88 Vanagon
>
>
> David Brodbeck wrote:
>
> >On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, John Wessels wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>In a message dated 10/6/02 9:29:05 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> >>DBAKER5@KC.RR.COM writes:
> >>
> >><< There's what the world needs -- a 5,000 lb 450 hp ute that runs
> 168 mph.
> >> Wonder how many people it's going to kill....
> >>
> >> Dave in KC >>
> >>
> >>A lot less than VW Vanagons ever did.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Almost certainly, but only because they'll sell a lot fewer.  5,000
> pounds
> >going 168 mph can do a lot more damage than 3,000 pounds going 65.
> >
> >It's not jealousy for me.  I can sleep in my Vanagon.  What they
> hell
> >would I do with a Porsche SUV?  i do witsh I had that much money to
> burn,
> >tho. ;)
> >
> >Personally I just think the whole idea of a Porsche SUV is kind of
> >laughable, a lot like that Cadillac SUV with the uselessly short
> pickup
> >bed.  It makes me wonder who would buy such a thing.  What message
> are
> >they trying to send, socially?
> >
> >             _ _
> >  __ _ _   _| | |  | David M. Brodbeck (N8SRE)
> Ypsilanti, MI
> > / _` | | | | | |
> +-----------------------------------------------------
> >| (_| | |_| | | | @ cyberspace.org
> > \__, |\__,_|_|_| "There is something ironic when the developers
> name
> > |___/             housing development after what they bulldozed to
> build
> >                   it, but I think you have to allow some latitude
> in
> >                   naming, so that not every street is called
> "Suburban
> >                   Drive." -- Jan Wolter
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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