Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 12:24:23 -0400
Reply-To: Jeff Lincoln <magikvw@GMAIL.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Jeff Lincoln <magikvw@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: daily driver = RUST Re: Friday Ramblings, probably long,
possibly pointless....
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Salt and snow will eventually take their toll but if people would wash thei
cars more often in the winter it certainly would help keep the rust at bay
longer.
On 4/14/07, JordanVw@aol.com <JordanVw@aol.com> wrote:
>
> In a message dated 4/14/07 1:34:19 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> becida@COMCAST.NET writes:
>
>
> > >So the question is, does anybody still drive a Vanagon (or loaf) as a
> > daily
> > >driver out there?
> >
> > My '87 is a daily driver, almost 80 miles a day, I put a Subaru
> > Legacy engine in a year ago and it's great!
> > It hauls stuff and family where it's needed, at least it does when I
> > do the driving. I like driving a vw bus.
> >
> >
> >
> > Rob
> > becida@comcast.net
> >
> > With a '91 Subaru 2.2 in an '87 Vanagon in western Washington.
> >
>
> y'all can get away with daily driving your vanagons out on the west coast.
>
> if you daily drive your vanagon in the northeast, it becomes a parts car
> in
> about 5 years.. i have a number of parts vanagons here that are full of
> rust
> holes.. you west coasters are scared of seam rust.. seam rust is
> nothing...
> every vanagon has seam rust.. im talking rust HOLES..
> i parted out a '91 carat a little while back that had HOLES in the
> rockers...holes in the dogleg steps, holes where the front seatbelts mount
> to the
> doglegs, and major rot under the rear hatch seal.. power steering lines
> weeping
> right thru because the metal was so thin..undercarriage a mess. it was a
> daily
> driver from vermont, and then upstate new york. the fiberglass
> sideskirts did
> a great job hiding huge holes in the rockers.. the brackets that held the
> rear
> bumper endcaps on were gone.. completely rusted away..
>
> this is why i dont drive my own vans in the winter..
>
> ive put too much time and money into them for them to turn into another
> parts
> car..
>
> if i lived on the west coast, id drive them daily all year round.
>
> but no way in hell would i do that here..
>
> chris
>
>
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Thanks,
Jeff
90' Carat (It's Blue, It's Beautiful, It's naked inside - IT'S ALIVE!)
86' (We call this one Parts)
85' GL (Sidelined and feeling neglected)
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