Date:         Fri, 10 Jul 1998 12:06:53 -0700
Reply-To:     Roger Pease <Roger.Pease@ENG.SUN.COM>
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From:         Roger Pease <Roger.Pease@ENG.SUN.COM>
Subject:      Why so many '84 & '85 Westies??
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Since I have been shopping for a Westfalia I have been
focused largely on the for sale ads here and elsewhere.
I have not been keeping statistical data but it looks
to me like a disproportionate number of Westfalias for
sale are '84s and '85s.  This is the same years as the
1.9L waterboxer, right?  Is there any reason for this
correspondence?

I do not believe it is because the 1.9L engine is that
much more expensive to keep up than the 2.1L engine and
that people are "unloading" them.  It does not seem that
the 2.1L was *that* much better.  Were the Westphalias
just that much more popular those years, skewing the
population?  One sees plenty of non-Westfalias spread
across the span of waterboxer years.

If so it's kind of ironic that the unit that is usually
on the bottom of everybody's list of recommended engines
is the most common in Westfalias; ones for sale anyway.
Could the "collectors" have that much impact?  Curious...

        _Roger - Vana-wanna-gonna-be