Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 10:58:19 -0600
Reply-To: Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
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From: Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
Subject: Re: Vngns ARE junk!(Minivans)
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That wasn't my experience with the three fiats in my life, one of which
I owned from almost new. Peeling chrome, flaking paint, deteriorating
rubber, hard starting, windows falling out and on and on. The only
worse car I've owned was a Jaguar, so bad you literally could not give
me a new one (I'd make you sell it first and give me the money).
There are some junk cars in this world, but the vanagon doesn't rate
mention with them.
Jim
On Mar 11, 2005, at 10:21 AM, Aaron Pearson wrote:
> my wife had a fiat mille in brazil. it looked like a tiny vw rabbit,
> with a high revving 1L enigne. fiat brazil seemed to have done nothing
> to change the design in about 20 years. we bounced that thing over
> countless backroads all over southeast brazil, it was a rock. it had a
> very solid suspension and just kept going and going. i would love to
> import one.
>
> aaron
> '87 syncro gl
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Demarest [mailto:tim.demarest@POBOX.COM]
> Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 9:13 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Vngns ARE junk!(Minivans)
>
>
> Wow... anyone who has torn their hair out about the reliability of the
> Vanagon, picture maintaining a camper based on a ::shudder:: Fiat...
> 'Pandora' may be an apt name...
>
> But it sure is cute, thanks for the pics, Ron!
>
>
>
> At 08:54 PM 3/10/2005 -0500, The Bus Depot wrote:
>>> I think Subaru had one of the first minivans,
>>> http://www.cars101.com/oldsubpictures.html
>>
>>> How about a '58 Goggomobil?
>>> http://www.goggomobil.com/gallery/transporter/transporter.html
>>>
>>> Or perhaps you prefer the Doka?
>>> http://www.goggomobil.com/gallery/pickup/pickup.html
>>
>>
>> Or, if you prefer a camper, the Fiat Pandora. I saw one "in person"
>> when I was in England last. Really neat. It looks like a VW Bus that
>> got shrunk in the wash. It's hard to tell the scale from the pictures,
>> but next to one of these, a VW bus looks huge!
>>
>> http://www.trikes.freeserve.co.uk/irom/pandora.htm
>>
>> - Ron Salmon
>> The Bus Depot, Inc.
>> www.busdepot.com
>> (215) 234-VWVW
>>
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