In a message dated 12/7/04 2:14:42 PM Eastern Standard Time,
rolis85@SWAUSSIE.NET writes:

> >wonder what the German engineers who made these vans would think.
> >
> They'd do the same! I remember reading an article in a German car
> magazine (Auto, Motor und Sport, about 18 years ago) about a Vanagon
> that was equipped with an old Porsche 911 engine. Porsche used Vanagons
> to take their spare parts along on test trips to the desert. They got
> tired of waiting for the Vanagons, so they put old Porsche engines in
> some of them. They were described to be the horror of every Golf GTI
> driver on the "Autobahn": Imagine being in the passing lane at 100 mph
> (legally!) and have a Vanagon show up in your rear mirror, indicating to
> overtake ;-) This car was apparently used a lot by VW and Porsche
> executives for fun, and there were speculations that they would make a
> small series of these cars. Don't  think that ever happened...
>
>

yea there was a thread on Vortex a while back about these Porsche powered
vanagons...conversion done by Porsche themselves..they made a very limited
quantity of them and you still see one pop up from time to time..

chris