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From: "Karl F. Bloss" <bloss@enter.net>
Reply-To: bloss@enter.net
To: amanda powell <amandajp1@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: What Kind of Vanagons Are We Driving?
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 10:23:12 -0500

There seems to be a commonality among VW drivers.  We have an '85 Saab 900
Turbo along with our '87 Westy Weekender.  I know several other VW people
who
have or have had Saabs.  Maybe it's just the need to be different.

BTW, have you thought of doing any of the work yourself.  What all does it
need?  Whereabouts are you?  Maybe some local listmembers can help.

-Karl

I must emit my "need to be different, because both the Saab & Vanagon were
GIVEN to me!  Fell right into my lap!
I have thought about doing some of the work myself & intend to get
listmembers help after I get my first estimate of everything wrong.  It
definitely needs, I've been told, A head rebuild, 4 new tires, exhaust
system work, & whatever else has deteriorated in the nearly two years it has
sat undriven (although I DO visit it regularly) I'm pretty mechanically
inclined, but am starting graduate school soon...I live in Columbus Ohio,
and see LOTS of Vanagons up & running around this city!

P.S. I was told (two years ago) that the head problems that develop are
caused by a mismatch of electricity being used i.e. 13 volts in the front &
12 in the back (or something like that) & the extra volt being carried in
the coolant, which pits the heads...has anyone else heard this, or how to
remedy it??
Amanda

 > I'm not driving, but "sitting on" my grandfather's '85 GL...  Drove it
for
 > a year (some before, some after) he died & have never loved a vehicle
more
 > (not even my '83 Saab 900 TURBO!!!!)  I'm "sitting on" it because of the
 > apparently inevitable coolant problem... I'm trying to save the $2000 or
 > more I've been told it needs to be fixed (& set up a trust fund for
future
 > repairs!)  Though I read somewhere a VW Vanagon is on of those "top
twenty
 > cars of all time no one should ever own" (let alone drive!) my memories
of
 > driving it with my grand father, and after him will inspire me to keep it
 > and (keep fixing it) forever!!
 >
 > Amanda Powell
 > New Listee
 > '85 GL
 > '98 Saturn SL2
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Karl and Kristina Bloss, Trexlertown, PA
'87 Westfalia Weekender  "Beverley" - 194K miles
http://www.enter.net/~bloss/vw/
PA/NJ Vanagon owner's mailing list:
http://www.enter.net/~bloss/vw/pavanagon/

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