[Vwdiesel] Here and there

[Arkady Mirvis]

I entertain myself reading Mr. Toensing post. Interesting! Innovative! Money 
can be made the way he suggests. Jobs can be created. But how will you 
substitute 8 million american jobs lost? And still being lost.
I live in Portugal. Cars here are very expensive, taxes, particularly on 
diesels are very high. On my 1987 Westfalia tax is 27 euros ( $32 ), but on 
1991 diesel Jetta - 124 euros ( $150 ). That is because diesels aren't 
clean. It cost a fortune to bring a vehicle to Europe. My vehicles were 
brought to Portugal in 2007 and, because I am a retired person and an 
immigrant, I was given a break. To import to USA, a country with the highest 
import barriers in the world is totally impractical. Add to this 
"federalization" alterations cost and you will be devastated.
My german mentor speaks with heavy german accent. But I understood the word 
DER NARR he said - what in German means a total fool, he characterised 
anyone attempting to import a car to USA. I have seen my friend losing hope 
and parting almost new MB from Germany.
My dear mentor said that thru all his life he was amazed seeing how many 
young fools do survive to become old fools.
An american manufacturing engineer with 40 years of super precision metal 
and assembly experience, forced to look for affordable living.
Found in backward country with great weather, food, wine and oceanic 
food...........

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William J Toensing" <toensing at wildblue.net>
To: <vwdiesel at vwfans.com>
Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 11:16 AM
Subject: [Vwdiesel] Blow by test?


>I previously lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota moving to California in 1969 
>at age 36. In addition to the cold winters, the effect of the salted winter 
>streets destroying cars of the '50s & '60's motivated me to move to Calif. 
>Frequent trips back to Minn. in the '70s showed that cars from the '70's & 
>early '80's didn't fare any better. The amazing thing I found in Calif. was 
>that '50's cars highly prone to rust in Minn. in less than 2 years are 
>still seen rust free today in Calif. The worst cars of the '50's were 1957 
>& '58 Plymouths & Dodges, rusting out in less than a year. Out here, the 
>sun will bake the interior upholstery & rubber weather stripping whereas 
>back in the rust belt mechanical parts & upholstery will
> often survive past the time the car is junked out. Therefore, if someone 
> could figure out a way of bringing good upholstery & mechanical parts 
> including engines out to the west coast & return with rust free bodies, 
> fenders, doors, etc. I can see the possibility of someone making money at 
> this. It pains me to see rust free cars going to the crusher that could be 
> more cheaply restored than rebuilding the bodies of rust buckets back 
> east. In Europe there exist diesel versions of cars that I am sure get 
> junked due to accident or rust out. If someone could save good diesel 
> engines & related component parts & ship them to the USA I suspect a 
> market would exist would exist here. I understand there are versions of 
> Jeeps & Chrysler/Dodge minivans exported to Europe that we cant get here. 
> The Ford Focus is not available with a diesel engine but I understand the 
> diesel Focus is widely sold in in Europe. All Asian cars currently sold 
> here are not available with diesel engines & have not been available to my 
> knowledge since 1986 but have diesel availability in comparable models in 
> Europe.
> Bill Toensing, Nevada City, CA
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