Date:         Sun, 2 May 1999 23:51:45 -0700
Reply-To:     Stephen Overmyer <s.overmyer@UWS.EDU.AU>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stephen Overmyer <s.overmyer@UWS.EDU.AU>
Subject:      Re: vanagon longevity
In-Reply-To:  <199905020700.RAA21834@ob1.uws.EDU.AU>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

At 12:00 AM 2/05/99 -0700, you wrote:>
>jimkim wrote:
>>  please post the
>> highest number of km or miles you or somebody you know personally(no bus
>> myths) has milked from one of our fine machines.


 There was a guy here in Australia about 5 or 6 years ago who was a courier
 of some sort who used a T3 Transporter for travelling the distances between
 some of the outback towns in New South Wales.He used to cover around 800km
 a night on a regular basis,presumably at high speed (well relatively
speaking)
 He had over 600,000kms on his van when he traded it in still with the
original
 motor and all that had gone wrong was a fuel pump (thanks to contaminated
fuel)
 and a burned out highbeam switch (from incorrectly wiring in all his
additional
 spotlights). I'd imagine the motor wasn't long for this world and the resale
 value wasn't much but it's no myth.He was a customer of the guys I bought my
 van from,as well as appearing once in one of the Aus.VW magazines

 Steve O.
 Blue Mountains NSW Aus
 '92 Transporter WBX
 '76 Crew Cab
 '68 Beetle Deluxe