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Date:         Thu, 7 Mar 2013 21:05:40 -0500
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: An Early Vanagon Ad
Comments: To: Ben T <syncro@GMAIL.COM>
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At 08:39 PM 3/7/2013, Ben T wrote: >Google or Bing "VW T3 B32" or simply . :-)

I read an article long ago from one of the car magazines, showing a Porsche-owned Vanagon they'd put one of their big engines in. IIRC the article said they used it to take engineers around to conferences at obscene speeds. My recollection was that this was a one-off, and from the '79 or '80 model year. Confirm? Deny? Same or different beast?

I'm pretty sure I read this on line rather than on paper. The one I read on paper was the April issue of R&T or Motor Trends that did a full side-by-side road test of three vehicles: A Kenworth semi-tractor, a Vanagon, and a...wait for it...Hop Rod. I've never owned a KW tractor, but a younger brother got a Hop Rod for his birthday long ago. That thing could break your leg. So at the time I read the article it was the only one of the three I was actually familiar with.

I'd love to see that article again. I imagine it would have been April '80 or '81 maybe.

Yrs, d


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