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Subject:My Dumb Question No. 37 (Was bring back the Vanagon)
From:Maureen Stretch
Date:Sat, 21 Mar 1998 17:05:50 -0500

GMBulley wrote, in part, on the topic of bringing back the Vanagon:
><snip> If VW brought a Westfalia equiped van, with the myriad of
>reliable
>powerplants they offer in S.A., even if they only offered them in pea-soup
>green with marigold orange swirled in, I'd be the first in line.

My dumb question is, why can�t the engines they make now in S.A be used in our Westies?  If you can put a Subaru engine in, or some of the others that have been mentioned, isn�t there anything they make in South Africa, new, that could be used in a late model Westy, like a �91?

Maureen Stretch
Natick, Mass.
91 Vanagon GL Westy �Johann�

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