Date:         Thu, 11 Jul 1996 17:19:55 PST
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         vanamaniac@juno.com (Bradley L Spear)
Subject:      Re: Go with the split


>I'm for the split.

>Water-cooled's are orphans, not even supported by VW any longer, save 
>in the peripheral sense.  Valient efforts by a few to keep them alive
thru 
>engine transplants generally get short shrift from their peers.  
>
>Over the last couple of years of Vanagon list activity I've gained a 
>strong impression that the typical owner of a water-cooled VW van is not
only 
>less mechanically adept than air-cooled owners, they seen less willing
to 
>acquire the skills and invest in the tools that would keep their
orphaned 
>vehicles alive, a failure of spirit -- or Fear of Grease -- that
virtually 
>assures such machines will end up on the junk heap.
>
>-Bob
>
The last person I would think of on this list to malign another Type II
owner was Bob Hoover.  I always thought that Bob and his sermons were
some of the high points of the list with information that could be of
use to just about all list members.  I am trying not to take his last
paragraph personally, especially since he did not single anyone out, but
with such a shot-gun blast, its hard not to.  I am really sorry that Bob
has such a dislike for we who have water-cooleds.  This is all I have to
say, perhaps I have said too much.

Brad
'72 Westy
'87 Syncro GL

P.S.
I have done ALL the work on both of these, plus two Rabbits, '69 Impala,
'72 Lemans, etc.