Date:         Mon, 11 Apr 1994 14:40:06 -0600 (CDT)
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         dunham@mpd.tandem.com (Jerry Dunham)
Subject:      Re: Sportsvans (sick)

]From vanagon@lenti.med.umn.edu  Mon Apr 11 10:05:33 1994
]From: jgladu@bcm.tmc.edu (John Gladu)
]
]At  8:34 AM 4/11/94 -0500, Joel Walker wrote:
]>as far as i can tell, the vanagon-body was never
]>built in Mexico or Brazil (they are STILL making the bread-loaf body, but
]>with a water-cooled engine!! and a strange extra big square grill up front).
]
]I'd love to get one of those Mexican buses.  I even like the looks of that
]grill.  BTW, that's the radiator, and it's got a Rabbit-gas engine in the
]back...

When a bus (or Vanagon, for that matter) has an in-line engine stuffed in
the back in place of the proper boxer, is that engine installed inline with
the vehicle, as in an Audi, or transversally, as in a Golf or present Pas-
sat?  I've never looked in the back of a diesel Vanagon, so I have no clue.
I would think the inline arrangement would be a tight fit, but would allow
the use of the standard Typ II transaxle, while the Golf arrangement might
allow the whole engine/transmission from the car to be used, but with the
enginer laid over flat.

Edjicate me.

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