Date:         Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:10:38 -0700
Reply-To:     Peter DiFalco <peter.difalco@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Peter DiFalco <peter.difalco@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Burning Vanagons ? ;o)
Comments: To: Don Hanson <dhanson928@gmail.com>
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Well I suppose with a WBX it's less of a problem than it would be with an
air-cooled where playa dust is pretty adept at insulating your hot parts. So
soon as the kidlings are a little older and the money/time factors work out
we'll have to make it a priority to get to BRC.
Enjoy yourselves, burners!

Peter

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Don Hanson <dhanson928@gmail.com> wrote:

>   Dusty hostile enviornments are exactly what Vans are supposed to be used
> for.  Seriously, if you can't take a Vanagon to some 'so-called"
> non-mainstream gathering in the desert, what can you take?...Range Rover?
> Humvee?  Jeep Grand vitarra?
>   If you only drive on freeways because you don't want to 'hurt" it...dunno
> bout that.
>   I've seen Ferraris driving around in Baja, people camping out of fancy
> BMWs, Euro's traveling in $100k Mercedes 'Dakar' style trucks around the
> Southwest.....Taking a van outback in Nevada isn't gonna bust the
> bank...Just hose it out after and change the filters, etc.
>   Don Hanson
>