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bus vanagon ® ® way back in ancient history when bill had his `67 voted democratic and weighed 157 pounds the vw bus® was a spartan vehicle and the owner s manual cost $12.95 today bill s eurovan® which he purchased new in `93 even has heat as we get older we are not as spartan as we were note the 2,420 page manual which bill knows by heart it equals 20 of bill s weight gain there are not tens of thousands of eurovans® thus we have not published a separate catalog for them we can save you $400 on a muffler system or $100 on a set of rear brakes plus thousands of other things just call the eurovan® is not as complicated as the $139.95 manual makes it out to be eurovan ® volkswagen® began building the van in 1949 eight were produced that year but the first ones wer not officially exported to the united states until 1950 when a total of ten were sold in the five decades since then the vw bus® as it is properly known started the van craze in america and has attracted a fierceif frozen band of loyalists the bus® went through four changes the split window 1952-1967 the bus® of 1968 through 1979 the vanagon® 1980-91 and the eurovan® 1992-until it bit the dust in 2004 the split window bus is a collector s car today the 23 window versions are indeed very rare these buses are very distinctive and trendy if you have enever outgrown your hippy period you need a split window bus the bus ® 1968-1979 is bigger and better in many ways the bus remained almost identical during this eleven year period and many of the parts are interchangeable the bus was not to big and not too small and not as tippy on windy days as the earlier split window models the major change occured in 1972 with the introduction of the porsche engine this engine started at 1700cc and eventually ended up at 2000cc it was more powerful and allowed the addition of an automatic transmission or air conditioning in 1980 the vanagon® was introduced a completely new vehicle everything about it is different the suspension is car-like and tuned to give the big boxy bus good handling the eurovan® ended any illusion of an affordable van bus vanagon eurovan® poor or rich there is a vw® van for you one of the most dramatic changes in the vw® bus is in the price hippies and poor folks used to drive the old spit window bus with 35,000.00 price tag on the eurovan® camper and campers you have to be a drug dealer or a lawyer to afford one volkswagen® made a few diesel vanagons® in 1983 and 1984 these were so slow on acceleration they were almost dangerous they do get good mileage and a few patient people love them but a test drive one for a day before you buy one one problem which was never really solved in a vw® bus is heat the heating system in the bus® up until 1971 relied on the same system as in bugs the system was inadequate for the little bug® and needless to say the bus owner froze from 1972 until 1983 various improvements were made the heater became more complicated and is extremely expensive it works a little better the system is interconnected and if one part fails the entire system can shut down surely they could have designed a simpler system the water cooled vanagon® finally solved the heat problem but replaced that problem with a very expensive exhaust system up to $2000 volkswagen® had the lead in mini-vans they had the only garageable van on the market then came the chrysler mini-van the chrysler mini-van outsold the vw vanagon®-ten to one they are similar vehicles vw® had it years before chrysler the market was there-just look at the chrysler sales record why didn t vw® sell athe vanagon and eurovan attention bus® and vanagon® camper owners we occasionally dismantle campers so if you have specific needs or are doing a home made conversion call us we may have the goodies you need in stock recycled at great prices bus vanagon eurovan ® section v t-154 www.partsplaceinc.com 248-373-2300

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