While driving a Ryder truck on I-40 west of flagstaff in late summer steadily climbing a very long grade, and doing about 65 mph. Two white Bay window style Westfalias passed me, obviously loaded and really going, they must have been doing 80. I was hoping they would pull over so i could find out how they were doing and take a closer look, but i never managed to catch them. I assumed they must have had some kind of engine other than the air cooled version of that era. Since there are inline engine alternative's for the water cooled vanagons, what engine alternatives are available for that era westfalias ... if any ? Or were they possibly running really tricked out air cooled engines ? |
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