[Vwdiesel] Replies to Taygan & Shepherd, recient posts

[mark shepherd]

Hi William,
How's that Dasher coming along?

RE that wire tool, I've not located it over here in the UK (yet).
However the link to my baked bean tin took 5 minutes to make and as seen in 
the picture the tool has worked fine. Look at the link below this line:
http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/6991/quantumterminaltoolxw8.jpg

With regards the later production of Caddys. They are Caddys in name only, 
and are probably shareing no components at all with the mk1/mk2 
Rabbits/Golfs.
 If you look up Caddy on ebay (UK) you will get lots of pictures of them. My 
engine I just put in my gasser Quantum had been stood for 18 months full of 
diesel and paper plugs in the holes... Well it started up first time... 
marvellous.
Regards
UK-Mark


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William J Toensing" <toensing at wildblue.net>
To: <vwdiesel at vwfans.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 9:50 AM
Subject: [Vwdiesel] Replies to Taygan & Shephard, recient posts


> One of the posts refers to buying tools from NAPA Auto Parts, but I think 
> the party asking the question lives in the UK. I don't know if NAPA has a 
> presence in Canada or the UK but they are a large auto parts chain in the 
> USA. I live in California, but some of our contributors live in Canada & 
> Europe. What might be available in one part of the world may not be 
> available elsewhere. Also, the parts or tools might be known by different 
> names in different countries.
> One poster indicates a VW Rabbit pickup or "Cady" imported from Europe 
> might have to be modified to be driven in the USA. Since 1968, as I 
> recall, cars could not be sold in the USA if they did not conform to 
> government DOT/EPA regulations. Prior to the early '80s, cars could be 
> brought into compliance by shops specializing in this. These were known as 
> "Gray Market" cars. After the early '80s (another story), legislation was 
> changed so that auto manufacturers could state whether a particular model 
> met DOT/EPA standards or not & could thus keep a car out of the USA market 
> for what ever reason they had, even if the car met American standards. It 
> then became extremely costly & difficult to import "non-conforming" cars 
> into the USA.
> However, it is my understanding that either laws or regulations were 
> changed, sometime in the '90s I think, to permit the importation of any 
> car over 25 years old, without having to meet our DOT/EPA regulations. So, 
> as of 2008, it should be possible to import any 1983 or older car into the 
> USA without having to meet these regulations. Therefore, I wouldn't think 
> it would be necessary to modify any 1983 or older car. Were any VW 
> "Caddy's made after 1983? I thought production of VW Rabbit pickups 
> stopped when VW closed the Westmoreland plant in Penn. By the way, where 
> did the VW Rabbit pickups get the name "Cady or Caddy"?
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