Speaking of purple ..
Royal Purple Synthetic ATF ...
highly recommended.

I used on of those German Transaxle purple torque converters a few years
ago.
it's still out there running and no problems I'm pretty sure.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Martin" <ramblinvan@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 5:59 PM
Subject: Re: Looking for a Torque Converter

>I recently bought a rebuilt one from Ken at German Transaxle of America in
> Bend OR, and it's purple!  (More of a lavender really)  I haven't
> installed
> it yet so I can't give a review.
>
> Andrew
> Bainbridge Island WA
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
> BenT Syncro
> Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 5:45 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Looking for a Torque Converter
>
> Hello Folks,
>
> I haven't had much luck finding a torque converter from our better
> known listvendors. My local vendor has been taking forever to get me
> one. Though I realize a simple Google search will yield a few vendors.
> I'm hoping to get names of vendors listmembers had good experience with.
>
> West coast preferred for quicker delivery. In a pinch, I'll order from
> anywhere.
>
>
> TIA,
>
> BenT
> Sent from my missing TQ