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Subject:Re: Watercooled Mexican Microbusses
From:jimt
Date:Fri, 7 Jan 2005 17:06:58 -0700

On 1/7/05 4:51 PM, "BenT Syncro" <syncro@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 16:32:39 -0700, jimt <camper@tactical-bus.info> wrote:
> 
>> When I was looking at various conversions an importer got a hold of the
>> parts list for a mexican bus.  The radiator was an audi part.  The engine
>> was a rabbit engine tilted.  The audi radiator was from the audi where the
>> radiator is to  one side and not on the center of the vehicle. Smaller but
>> thicker than the normal radiator normally used on other vw audi with the
>> same style engine.
>> 
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>> jimt
> 
> Sounds suspiciously like the VW fox. Radiator to one side thicker than
> normal. Looks like a small Audi and positions the engine
> longitudinally like the Audi's.
> 
> BenT
> 
> 
The vw fox actually was the audi fox in the 70s then resurrected in the 80s
as the VW fox.  That vehicle has a very interesting history.  There was
quite a bit of ground breaking done with it.
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