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Subject:Re: converting watercooled vanagon to aircooled
From:Per Lindgren
Date:Fri, 30 Apr 1999 19:44:50 +0200

Bulley wrote:

> K&W-
> "So after 40 years they stopped using the aircooled motors here in the US
> (they are still using them in Mexico and South American because they
> can..."
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> Nah-uh...both the bus and the beetle are water cooled in Mexico, have been
> since the early eighties.

NO! The Beetle is NOT watercooled yet! The water-bug (New Beetle) is, but not
the honorable Type1!
You are correct that the bay-window bus is watercooled, that one is produced
with a 1,8 I-4. Both the Bug and Bus in Brazil are still air-cooled.