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Subject:Re: 1986 Vanagon GL Auto - Mileage
From:Anthony Bailey
Date:Wed, 4 May 2005 13:17:56 -0500

chuckles....heh.. Yes you're right, I probably need to live on the
edge more, but my wife isn't fond of running out of gas so we normally
just fill it up every 200 miles or so. Would be nice to have a bigger
tank (like my truck's 25 gallon tank) but then it'd cost more to fill
it up too, though.
Tony

On 5/4/05, bueses <bueses@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > My '87 Vanagon GL with auto gets 18-19+ on the highway running avg
> > 60mph. It's pretty much always got that since we've had it. Normally
> > fill up every 200 or so miles.
> 
> Tony, if you fill up every 200 miles or so, you'll never run out of gas!!!!
> I try to go 250-275 between fillups.  Theoretically, w/ a 16 gal. tank @ 18
> mpg you could go 288 miles.  Why not live on the edge a little!
> 
> Grin,
> 
> Tom Buese-2 gal gas can on Westy roof rack gets at least a couple of folks a
> week warning moi that it's there!
> 
> 

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