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Subject:Re: Wanted aircooled vanagon for "crash to pass"!
From:David Marshall
Date:Sun, 25 Apr 1999 17:18:34 -0700

Gotta find a Vanagon first... but yes, pictures, video - the whole nine
yards.

At 12:15 25/04/1999 -0700, Stephen Arbaugh wrote:
>Are you planning on taking before and after pictures? Or better, video?
>Give a better idea what these things will do when hit...
>
>steve
>'85 westy
>kent, wa
>
>>
>>From past experiences with the races the car always dies because you smash
>>into someone and break the rad causing the enine to overheat or someone
>>smashed into you and damages the engine in some way (lack of oil etc etc).
>>My theory on the air-cooled Vanagon is there is no rad to break - the van
>>is biger and taller than most cars that are in the race and with a decent
>>steel bumper like I have on my Syncro - noone is going to touch the engine.
>> I figure it would be more than likely I would place in the top three...
>>
>
>

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