Hi John,

The Mexican buses went out of production in the 90's. There are
watercooled buses in production today in Brazil.

I am currently in the gathering stages of converting my aircooled
westfakia to an inline 4 using a Mexican transmission and a
front-mounted rad. I don't plan to use the (IMO) ugly plastic Mexican
radiator, instead I will covertly place the rad in a faux spare tire.

Benny Boy currently has custody of the Mexi-trans, and there's a 1.6TD
engine allocated to the project once it comes out of the donor vehicle.

I expect it may be on the road in 2010.

A crafty exporter could probably come up with a Brazilian conversion kit
using all new parts, but AFAIK so far no-one has.

Happy Trails,

Greg Potts
1973/74/79 Westfakia "Bob the Tomato"
1987 Wolfsburg Weekender Hardtop
www.busesofthecorn.com
www.pottsfamily.ca

John Rodgers wrote:
> Have the Mexican built buses based on the '70's model - with the inline
> four and the external add-on radiator - gone out of production? I wonder
> if those '70's machines legal here could be converted to inline four's
> with relative ease using an add-on radiator out front?
>
> Thoughts anyone?
>
> John Rodgers
> 88 GL Driver