

| Subject: | Re: Building a Vanagon stretch |
| From: | Mike Miller |
| Date: | Fri, 1 Apr 2011 15:50:31 -0700 |
Bored, nothing to do, not enough projects lying around undone? Buy the $2500 van and trick it out instead. You could, uh, wash it. Yeah that's the ticket. Keep you busy for weeks. Mike On 4/1/11 3:19 PM, "BenT Syncro" <syncro@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > Just want to take this opportunity to announce that we have embarked on a > project to build a stretch. It's a great way to cut your registration and > insurance bills in half. > > The front half will be my 1984 Vanagon GL which has the later model front > suspension with PS and turbo Subie behind an auto trans. Had to redo the > engine conversion anyway to replace all the homemade brackets, engine carrier > and exhaust. Instead of putting them back here, the engine and trans just goes > into the rear half. > > Undecided about the front half. It will be either an 85 Westy Weekender which > was smashed in front or an undamaged 85 Sunroof van with a blown headgasket. > Both are 4-speeds w/o no PS. Plus on the Weekender because it's not > economically impractical to repair and it's already the same color as the > front donor. It would be cool to have a sunroof in back limo-style. That works > better for me than the poptop. > > Thoughts? > > > BenT > > sent from my electronic leash
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