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Subject:Re: ABS on a Vanagon ... wha'???
From:John Rodgers
Date:Sun, 19 Nov 2000 09:12:35 -0600

Perhaps I should have qualified my remark..   Never seen them here in the USA. But
then the rest of the world is able to get different stuff than we are able to get
here.

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver

Andrew Grebneff wrote:

> >I know we tend to think simple is better most times, but the ABS  or other anti
> >lock systems have been on military jets, airliners, and corporate jets for
> >quite
> >a long time now. Those puppies do work. Saved many a pilots butt, his
> >passengers
> >butts, and the cargo's butts.
> >
> >Nothing wrong with them being on other vehicles including Vanagons......but of
> >course they aren't.
>
> They most certainly are. I read about a Syncro in a British VW magazine
> (with Oettinger six and factory ABS) and phoned the owner, who offered it
> to me for a ripoff sum.
>
> ndrew