I really think VW should have put out a performance edition of the air-cooled Vanagon. Bradley 10/12/95 I just looked out in the parking lot to make sure my 180 HORSEPOWER 3 LITER 6 CYLINDER 1981 Vanagon is still there, and I agree with Bradley. Actually, I think the "performance minivan" market is a real opportunity for any number of car-makers, but all they do is put badges and lower-body cladding on the six with automatic. If you want it done right you have to do it yourself. Speaking of doing it right, the other six-cylinder Vanagon that I saw in Princeton over the weekend was an interesting study. I have always been surprised when people compliment me on a "clean conversion", because it was such a "cut and try" operation. I was focused on getting it to run, not a factory look. The other one, tho, made me proud: it looks like the Bizarro version of mine. Accelerator cable haywired to the linkage. No engine sealing at all; the same open look as a watercooled VW engine. Wires smoked in a small engine fire not replaced, since they still had SOME in- sulation on them. Opening for the oil tank gnawed out by steel beavers. But it's been running for four years, so who's complaining? B. Wm Kennedy kennedy@admin.njit.edu
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