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Date:         Sat, 21 Mar 1998 17:05:50 -0500
Reply-To:     Maureen Stretch <mstretch@SPRINTMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <Vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Maureen Stretch <mstretch@SPRINTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      My Dumb Question No. 37 (Was bring back the Vanagon)
Comments: To: GMBulley <GMBulley@aol.com>, Vanagon@VANAGON.COM
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GMBulley wrote, in part, on the topic of bringing back the Vanagon:
><snip> If VW brought a Westfalia equiped van, with the myriad of
>reliable
>powerplants they offer in S.A., even if they only offered them in pea-soup
>green with marigold orange swirled in, I'd be the first in line.


My dumb question is, why canıt the engines they make now in S.A be used in our Westies?  If you can put a Subaru engine in, or some of the others that have been mentioned, isnıt there anything they make in South Africa, new, that could be used in a late model Westy, like a Œ91?


Maureen Stretch
Natick, Mass.
91 Vanagon GL Westy ³Johann²
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