David Cooper wrote:

> In a message dated 01/19/2001 7:12:18 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> mwsnow@HOME.COM writes:
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>> ps  If you think an automatic aircooled Vanagon loses power on
>> hills, try
>> merging onto an expressway in a Diesel.
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> Power?  Hills?  Expressway?  These strange terms are so foreign to
> me?  What
> do they mean?
> David Cooper
> 82 Aircooled Westy Wonder Wagon "The Brick Bullet"

"merging" is not really the correct term for this maneuver.  I drove a
79 rabbit diesel for a few years, and I can only imagine that engine in
a vanagon.  Getting on the freeway was more like dropping a rock in a
river than joining a flow...
Chris