John;
Thirty years ago (!)I bought a brand new '75 Rabbit; it wasn't EFI but
it still mysteriously quit running every once in a while. The VW dealer
(of course) could never find the problem and VW of A didn't want to hear
about it. One by one almost everything on that car either failed or fell
off. Never again have I owned a VW even though previous to the Rabbit I
had owned two others, a '63 VW 1500 Notchback and a '74 Squareback. The
'63 was a good car-- I even drove it a few hot laps around the old
Nurburgring circuit-- the '74 was OK but eventually it leaked more gas
from the crummy rubber FI hoses than it burned.
My impression is that when Dr. Heinz Nordhoff ran VW it was a great
company with a great product; when he left, the company and its cars
"went to hell in a handbasket."
Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-land-speed@autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-land-speed@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of John Burk
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 12:25 PM
To: land-speed
Subject: Re: Protecting the brain
A friend who was a VW dealer had some funny stories about EFI problems
with
early Rabbits . One customer parked in front of the neon sign at a bar
and
couldn't leave till they closed and turned the lights off . Never heard
whether his wife bought that story .
John Burk joyseydevil@comcast.net
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