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Date:         Sat, 24 Jan 2004 17:58:02 -0500
Reply-To:     David Brodbeck <gull@GULL.US>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         David Brodbeck <gull@GULL.US>
Subject:      Re: umbrella question about reliability
Comments: To: Richard Golen <rgolen@UMASSD.EDU>
In-Reply-To:  <5.1.0.14.0.20040124142754.01547c90@pop.umassd.edu>
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Richard Golen wrote:
> Speaking from the shores of Buzzard's Bay.....you can't teach an old salty
> dog new tricks...and you can't teach a Vanagon owner to go out and buy a
> Dodge Caravan!!


I might have been tempted, if there was a Dodge Caravan Westfalia.  But
I'm not sure I'd have any more confidence in a van assembled from K-car
parts than I do in the Vanagon.  Most of the Caravans I see are trailing
dense clouds of blue smoke.


--


David Brodbeck, N8SRE
'82 VW Diesel Westfalia
'86 Volvo 240DL wagon
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