I spent a couple weeks in and around Rio and the east coast beaches abt 5 yrs ago and never saw a Vanagon at all...Not a one...Just a whole bunch of old White 70's busses...Drum brakes, upright engines in either PU or 7 pass style...Most filled with worker bees or family type groups and most in pretty marginal shape at that. (((but every hovel had a satelite dish though))) lots of old type 3 and Golf- Jetta looking cars with various badges...polo, saviero, etc. Rented a good old fashioned dune buggy to roam in.. kind of cool in a retro sort of way, but I was glad to get home and out of the 3rd world and have a good steak. Daryl ----- Original Message ----- From: "jimt" <wetwesty@TACTICAL-BUS.INFO> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 3:21 PM Subject: Re: Brazil new buses. was Re: Buying a VW and picking it up at the factory in Germany:

On 11/29/04 3:11 AM, "Paul Guzyk" <paullist@GUZYK.COM> wrote:

> Too bad these new "old" busses cannot be purchased in North > America... you can always move to Brazil ! > > http://www.vw.com.br/default.asp?turl=%2Fautomoveis%2Fkombi%2FDefault%2Easp%3F > > There is a company in england using a loophole in their laws to bring them in to there. I am told that the price is very high and the paperwork is very tricky.

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