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Subject:Re: $300 84 going to the crusher... looks like could be saved
From:David Brodbeck
Date:Tue, 30 Mar 2004 19:27:32 -0500

pete owsianowski wrote:
> It also says :  "have a 79 Westy water cooled conversion for sale for
> $900......
>
> Was there a '79 WaterBoxer?

Apparently there is now. ;)

I'm guessing the "conversion" is that they've stuck a watercooled engine
of some sort in it.  If it's a wasserboxer, it sounds like the worst of
all worlds -- the added unreliability of the water cooling system, along
with the lack of interior space of a '79 bus.

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David Brodbeck, N8SRE
'82 VW Diesel Westfalia
'86 Volvo 240DL wagon