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Subject:Re: [VWVANFULLTIMERS] New Engine
From:Rob
Date:Sat, 29 Oct 2005 07:02:43 -0700

At  10/29/2005 06:16 AM, jhecht@alum.mit.edu wrote:
>Bummer!  I didn't realize you needed a new engine.  That sucks. Here I
>figured you'd probably finally made it out of Michigan.  Well, don't worry,
>you will!
>
>As for me, I'm temporarily off the road - in Malawi, doing some work for a
>change.  It's actually quite interesting, but I miss Matilda!  She's in
>Boulder, waiting for me to return, sometime after Thanksgiving.

This Malawi?  http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/mi.html

>So are you now ditching your mechanic's engine person and going with a
>Boston Bob?  Or still waiting for one from the same guy?

>  Unfortunately, after waiting a week for the engine, the wrong
>one was shipped- air cooled instead of water cooled. Now we have to wait
>another week for the right one!

In a case like this who pays for all the additional shipping?

Rob
becida@comcast.net