Date:         Sun, 8 Mar 1998 22:40:43 -0500
Reply-To:     Patrick Dooley <pdooley@GTE.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <Vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Patrick Dooley <pdooley@GTE.NET>
Subject:      Re: Where have all the Vanagons gone
Comments: To: KENWILFY <KENWILFY@aol.com>, Vanagon@VANAGON.COM
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>Three of them have sought shelter in my yard at the moment and one other at
my
>buddy's house in Glassboro (I ran out of room).  Maybe I should start a
fund,
>"Save the Vanagons" and get the government to subsidize my half-way house
for
>wayward Vans.
>Seriously though why would people in SA where they have put relatively
trouble
>free motors in their Vanagons, want Vgons from this country with all of the
>waterboxer woes?  If I were them I would just be happy that VW figured out
>that the waterboxer was a bad idea before they started selling them there.
I
>just can't figure out why they didn't figure it out here before they made
the
>same mistake 9 years in a row!


Even more baffling, VW had everything necessary to put a rabbit motor in the
vanagon in 82 with the diesel, but still insisted on using the waterboxer.
I guess the head problems hadn't surfaced yet.  I was browsing an old issue
of Hot VW's and saw a company advertising a waterboxer "upgrade" engine swap
for bus owners.  Bet there outta business now.