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Subject:Re: VWT and vanagon
From:Karl F. Bloss
Date:Fri, 21 Jan 2000 16:38:34 -0500

> Best line about the Wasserboxer in the issue "it's a motor that would need
> to improve just to suck" Les Bidrawn in VW TRENDS, March 2000. (Reprinted
> without permission)

<shrug>  Our Vanagon is the only vehicle I've ever owned that's gone 192K on
the same motor w/o an overhaul (and it ain't done yet [knock on wood]).  Even
my dad's '70 Buick LeSabre 350/4bbl needed a rebuild prior to that mileage
before finally being killed by frame rot at 327K.

-Karl

Karl and Kristina Bloss, Trexlertown, PA
'87 Westfalia Weekender  "Beverley" - 192K miles
http://www.enter.net/~bloss/vw/
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