Date:         Mon, 16 Feb 2004 14:42:03 -0500
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From:         Eric Zeno <vw4x4@FYI.NET>
Subject:      Re: A Sad Day
Comments: To: MilosKitchen <sagmoore@ZOOMINTERNET.NET>
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Dave,
       What a guy.....  I can't believe you!  You just traded
2 Vanagons for the Subaru, that I just junked up there!  He
was the highest priced  buyer, so I delievered it up there,
to Wangners.     Good luck on this rash decision.
                                      ERic





MilosKitchen wrote:

>Well, its finally over. On Saturday on my '87 Syncro, the steel high
>pressure line for the power steering decided it had had enough and blew ATF
>all over the street. I contacted Frank Condelli about the high pressure
>hoses, but I won't need 'em now, (sorry, Frank).
>
>Yesterday (Sunday) on a small road trip,  it suddenly stuck in third gear
>(oh great, bad 3-4 slider). I pulled over and shut it off, and was finally
>able to yank it back out of gear. I made it home by shifting from 2nd to
>4th; know how hard it is to resist automatically putting it in 3rd? Made
>that mistake. Wife in silence by my side.
>
>So... with only 1 out of three vans now running, it was decision time.
>Today, under their own power, we drove the '91 standard and the Syncro to
>Wagner's foreign auto parts (Ph. 724-368-8831, about 50 miles north of
>Pittsburgh PA on Rt. 19), and traded them for a '90 Subaru 2.2L engine and
>all the trimmings, which I will install sometime in April in the remaining
>'91 Carat. The '91 standard leaving wasn't a problem, but my 4 year old
>daughter was crying when she learned the Syncro (Buster) was going away. Bad
>thing to personify these things, you know?
>
>Other than dealing with Wagner for years buying MG, Sunbeam, Rabbit and
>Volvo parts, I have no other association with them. Lots of good parts (VC
>etc.) left on both of them.
>
>Too much to do, too little room and too little time to keep 'em all.
>
>Dave Milo
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