Hi Doug,

Abuse thine eyes with the monstrosity here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Brazilian_Kombi_Diesel.jpg

Happy Trails,

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

Doug Alcock wrote:
> Anyone got a pic of the front mounted rad -- I've never seen one.........
>
> Cheers,
> Doug
>
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Greg Potts <greg@pottsfamily.ca> wrote:
>
>> 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

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