Simple, new customers. I'm sure there are new people buying all kinds of old
VW's every day.  If they buy a Vanagon and do a web search for rebuilt
Vanagon motors they'll find GEX for $1,999 and Boston Bob and others for
about $700 more.  Without doing any research other than price checking it's
easy for GEX to get the sale.

I really don't know when they were ever good. I've been hearing bad stories
about them since I owned my '65 Beetle back in the early 80's.

Bryan

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
John
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 1:17 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Inside a GEX 2.0L engine, not pretty. LVC

Kim Springer wrote:
> Yes, they did do good work a long time ago, or at least they made one good
> engine.  My father's '67 SingleCab has had a GEX in it for as long as I
can
> remember.
>

This confuses me. I don't doubt what people are reporting about Gex, but
don't you have to make a quality product, at least some of the time, in
order to stay in business? Who do you suppose is buying their stuff, and
paying their bills, when their reputation is SO bad?

Seems odd that it can still be a business, as people have been ripping
on them, for a really long time.

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
John
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 1:17 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Inside a GEX 2.0L engine, not pretty. LVC

Kim Springer wrote:
> Yes, they did do good work a long time ago, or at least they made one good
> engine.  My father's '67 SingleCab has had a GEX in it for as long as I
can
> remember.
>

This confuses me. I don't doubt what people are reporting about Gex, but
don't you have to make a quality product, at least some of the time, in
order to stay in business? Who do you suppose is buying their stuff, and
paying their bills, when their reputation is SO bad?

Seems odd that it can still be a business, as people have been ripping
on them, for a really long time.

John