Try a Saab 900 series, the clutch is easier then the belts.

Mark in AK

----- Original Message -----
From: John Bange <jbange@GMAIL.COM>
Date: Saturday, April 29, 2006 7:44 am
Subject: Re: coping with fuel prices
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM

> > In keeping with the Friday spirit I have decided to share my way
> of living
> > with the cost of fuel.
> > I now have as my daily driver a 87 toyota corola FX.(crusty) ...
> 32mpg in
> > the
> > city.  It accelerates better than the van. ; )  Even the A.C.
> works.
>
> Yeah,I gotta say there's no way I would have been able to keep my
> cranky ol'
> Vanagon if our other car wasn't a 94 Honda Civic. Vaguely
> uncomfortable, no
> character at all, but it gets 30+mpg and asks nothing but oil
> changes and
> tires. Well, it needed belts once and a new radiator, but those were
> incredibly cheap and i changed 'em myself. My only complaint is
> that it took
> 2 hours to weasel three belts onto that engine because it's
> shoehorned in so
> tightly. Radiator only took 10 minutes though. 2 bolts (on top!),
> 4 hoses,
> and it pulled right out. Something not quite fair about a car that
> makes it
> easier to change the radiator than to change the belts...
> --
> John Bange
> '90 Vanagon - "Geldsauger"
>