Re: Re: Fwd: Girls got chip planted without them knowing it
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to fusion on Fri May 17 2024 01:47 pm

 > There's a YouTube channel called VWLife, they just had a convoy of old VW
 > busses crossing the southwest and going to Mexico, I think - hardy vehicles,
 > those old buses. Seems like they used the channel to make a virtual club
 > that can still get together and party...
 >
 > Old buses get around 20 miles a gallon and have a 10 gallon tank, so you're
 > stopping a lot. Just like the old cars I grew up in, on the trip they
 > encountered finicky carbs, dirty fuel filters that starve the engine, bad
 > spark plugs - even replacing an alternator along the way. Bonus points for
 > him having a spare alternator...

My first 2 vehicles were VW Buses (1969 and 1970) and I can tell they are slow, dangerous hunks of junk. But 20 MPG? It think they did better than that (and I had dual carbs on each).
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