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Date:         Wed, 3 May 2017 18:21:04 -0400
Reply-To:     ed donnen <spliced.surprise@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         ed donnen <spliced.surprise@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      DoKa sale
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Well, it's happened. As some of you know, I've been fighting with an intermittent engine problem for a while lately. A few days ago it died in an intersection in front of a police cruiser. Enough! This is an add I will place in The Samba in a few days: I sense a tear coming on.

1991 DOKA 2wd. Price: 25k obe The best of VW Vanagons is in my driveway!

Combine the interior spaciousness of a weekender (minus some space), with a single cab pickup bed length (minus some space), and you get a Doppelkabine, a Double Cab (DoKa) pickup truck! Born in Austria and imported to Canada, this little gem is now registered in Eastern US and needs a good home.

This truck drives like only a 2.1 WBX of unknown mileage can. It's smooth, quiet and tight. But wait, there’s more! None of this fancy-pansy, girly-whirly, powered windows and complicated gauges to be found here, no siree. It’s got manly hand cranked windows that lets you show off your bulging biceps and has the basic Factory power steering to save your steel-sinew arms for more important things. PLUS a heated driver’s seat! Let the passenger’s freeze their buns off, the driver can smile in comfort. Let them call you “Gladys”, because you got a happy butt!

Not a diesel, not a Syncro, but I can say mechanically this truck is extremely original. Well, almost painfully original. So every once in a while it has an attack of the Vanagon Syndrome and turns itself off. Don’t know why, it just does. Thirty seconds later it starts and runs like a thing on the racetrack. Varoom, you’re off again! How many Vanagons are there in the market that can make this claim? (Every one with a 2.1 WBX engine)

Body condition: Yes. This truck is in great shape, but it’s not perfect. No sneeze-through holes, but it has seam rust, but hey, who don’t these days? I could clean, rust-convert, and paint; but then what the hell would you have to do on the weekends? You’d only complain if I did it, anyway.

This inestimable treasure of a DoKa is located in Northern Virginia (passed its VA inspection), but can be legally driven ANYWHERE in the USA. Act NOW! Others are reading, and they may read faster than you. Failure to act will only lead to your future disappointment and ultimate frustration; and the angels will weep at your folly.

ed-91DoKa, a sad time


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