[Vwdiesel] Fw: Blow by test?

[Arkady Mirvis]

Joe,
You can live with gasoline engines in USA. This isn't the greatest problem. 
Wait till you will get old. Portuguese, who lived in worked in USA for 
decades, are returning sucked dry by healthcare expenses.
Who decides which vehicles to make and which to import - that is the 
question. And one constantly hears about free trade!
Extremely small alterations needed to legalize my vehicles to conform with 
European Union requirements. Can you imagine the reverse?
The culprits are the best legislators money can buy.   Ark.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe" <joe at haasenpfeffer.com>
To: "'William J Toensing'" <toensing at wildblue.net>; <vwdiesel at vwfans.com>
Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] Blow by test?


> Yes, a prime example of that is the new Ford Transit Connect... Available
> everywhere else on the planet for decades with a diesel and a stick.  Only
> available here now with a gas engine and automatic.  Sometimes I really 
> hate
> living here.
>
> http://www.ford.co.uk/Commercialvehicles/NewTransitConnect
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com [mailto:vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com] On
> Behalf Of William J Toensing
> Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 6:17 AM
> To: vwdiesel at vwfans.com
> 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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