Date:         Mon, 16 Jan 2006 09:00:51 -0600
Reply-To:     Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
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From:         Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
Subject:      Re: New owner with question
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TJ--

Is this Goldibox, the 87? I haven't seen very many vanagons other than
my own, but I thought all the later models (mid eighties on) had tachs.

Jim

On Jan 16, 2006, at 5:50 AM, TJ Hannink wrote:

> I'll disagree, only because my Camper didn't come with a tachometer.
> :>}
>
> Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET> wrote:
>   Others will surely disagree, but the answer to how fast you should
> drive a vanagon is right there on the tach in front of you... keep it
> out of the red, which is to say don't drive it over 70, which is about
> what the tach says. That's what the VW engineers intended, obviously or
> they wouldn't have bothered to label the tach accordingly.
>
>
>
> TJ Hannink
> Goldibox - 1987 Vanagon Camper, Wolfsburg Edition
> 1981 Bluebird Wanderlodge, FC-33
> Winter Park, Florida
> http://home.earthlink.net/~tjhannink/
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