Westmoreland is in Pennsylvania

[Larry C Leung]

Mine (body) was fine (and still is, minus the tree damage to the roof),
so was my friend's '84 GTi, even when we found it in the junkyard.
Actually, most of the Westmoreland VW's I've seen rusted less than their
German built counterparts (you shoulda seen my Dad's '78 Rabbit, it was a
religious VW, you know, holy!)

LL - NY

On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 20:01:57 -0700 (PDT) james accordino
<ssgacc at yahoo.com> writes:
>
>--- William Magliocco <magliocc at rocketmail.com> wrote:
>> Sorry to correct...Westmoreland was in Pennsylvania,
>> south of Pittsburgh.  Saw what was left of the place
>> in 1993 or so.  Supposedly, it was built in the '70s
>> by Chrysler, but they never finished the plant (due
>> to
>> their chronic money troubles).  VW bought in the
>> late
>> '70s and ran it until sometime in 1988.
>> 
>You are correct.  They were deeply in bed together at
>the time.  VW provided small, fuel efficient engines
>to Chrysler at a time when Merican companies were
>scrambling to raise their CAFE ratings.  Chrysler
>supplied some cheap bulk supplies, bolts and the like.
> Apparently they also supplied their vast corrosion
>protection experience at the time as every VW from
>Westmoreland immediately rusted out.
>
>Jim Accordino