it's nice that they blame the head gasket failures on improper
maintainence.  of course they're a bad design, but good pm can keep the
blowouts at bay.

aaron
'87 syncro gl

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of Donald Baxter
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 8:16 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Vanagon Definition

That the Vanagon has a weak manual transmission is news to me. In
218,000 miles it's the one thing I've never had problems with.
 The thing about Wikipedia is that we can edit and embellish this! Who
has the time? Or the inclination?
 Donald Baxter

 On 9/26/05, Jeffrey Schwaia <jeff@vanagonparts.com> wrote:
>
> I was cleaning out my "links" and found this old one:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanagon
>
> Kind of reads like a 6th grade class report. Hopefully, the author(s) 
> is not too proud of his work.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeff
>

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