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Subject:Re: WBX6 RE: difference's between model years
From:Dennis Haynes
Date:Tue, 30 Sep 2014 07:31:50 -0400

Go find an air cooled vanagon with an original engine. There are a few but
many didn't make it through warranty. Remember those VW adds stating how
there engines would freeze up or boil over? They never said they  would not
overheat.

Not Friday yet,
Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Stacy Schneider
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 12:07 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: WBX6 RE: difference's between model years

        What's really amazing is that within 4 years new it already had an
engine transplant .
       Must have been one of the earliest transplants out there .

                       Stacy

      Happily Married since 1986 .

> On Sep 29, 2014, at 19:28, raceingcajun <raceingcajun@COMMUNICOMM.COM>
wrote:
>
> In 1986 I drove my 1982 formally diesel in-line 1.8 gas Jetta
> transplant to Volkswagen school in San Antonio for a new products
> course. My van was a hit with all, including the German
> instructor........who's only comment was; "that's the one Volkswagen let
get away"!
>
> Howard
>
>
>> A 6 cylinder WBX?  Great, that would probably come with an even more
>> Imagine if VW had put the WBX R/D money into refining an I4 or I5
>> from the There's nothing wrong with the Wasserboxer that another
>> couple of cylinders wouldn't have fixed...

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