Here you go, Ray.

BenT

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Ray Brubaker <rayandmerle@gmail.com>
> Date: April 5, 2013, 7:18:50 PM PDT
> To: syncro@GMAIL.COM
> Subject: NVC: Anybody here own a B3/B4 Passat?
> 
> Hi Ben,
>  
> I read the Vanagon forum in Digest and don't know how to reply to the forum but thought I'd reply to you on this.
>  
> I have a '97 Passat TDI sedan, wife's ride, a '96 TDI wagon, both are in good running order, mid 200k miles; love them for the great milage, mid to upper 40s. My son has a twin to my wife's but the body and interior are bad, he wants to but the engine in the '89 Bluestar that I'm getting on the road for him and his wife and one year old. I put a 1Z TDI in my '86 Syncro in 2000, it made it a vary nice van until I lost it to fire in'08. I salvaged the entire running gear and have a '87 poptop waiting for that engine, I may try to convert it to syncro.
>  
> Won't be at your get-to-gether, I'm in NC.
>  
> Ray Brubaker