[Vwdiesel] Fw: Here and there

Fri Aug 20 22:31:41 PDT 2010

Bryan,
Good to hear from you.
What you described took years ago, when Germans had a program of "European delivery". I could get Westy in 1987. 
Fife years before, on advice of my friend Andreas August Friedrich Isbrecht Gerold von Pahlen, I imported MB, one with 27,000 km on it.
Now take a sit on the chair. I paid 12,000 DM when $1 was buying 3.0 DM. I made a round number on the sale of the car in USA. Three more deals did follow. Then happen that my best friend in USA, whom I stricktly forbade NOT to reveal anything, didn't follow the proverb "LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS" . That was the end! Soon one could see imported MBs all over. And Congress made a law which killed the business.
I guarantee that these days, with USA autoindustry is on its knees and its nose inches above the dirt, there are many new obstacles.
I will not believe your Jewish friend had made a good deal. German philosopher Schopengauer once said: 
                                                    " Der Jude ist ein Luegen Grossmeister " 
                                                        ( The Jew is Grossmaster of lies ). 
The Jew is a shopkeeper, moneychanger since early history. Manual labor is NOT respected. And jewish business practices! You shall be very cautios.
What the word " hissitic" in your message does mean? You probably meant " hassidic ". I know that hassidic Jews had emigrated massively from Brooklyn and really contaminated your mostly Christian area. 

Anyway lets go back to the cars. My self-imposed moratorium on any hole drilling was broken yesterday when I started to put 4 brackets to support removable hammock above the front seats. Now when I and Galina will be on a month long trip to Andalucia (South Spain with great cities Seville, Cordoba, Granada ....), we, before going to sleep, will place onto the hammock the laggage. The trip will commence on Sept. 15. 
I actually planned the trip to start in Spring, but Galina couldn't take a vacation. Pray for me not to deal with repairs on a trip.

I still didn't solve the fuel filter problem. 

My 1991 Jetta got all new belts. While doing the change, I did see a lot of proof that so called "German engineering" lately has a long way to learn and earn my respect. Elementary engineering provisions, making assembly foolproof were not implemented! German engineers today do ride on the credit of their grandfathers. Germany is contaminated steadily since WW II. Already years ago every 10-th person in Germany was Turkish.
Add to this all other stock which flooded after EU opened borders and you will get an idea that German discipline, precision ....... are on a historical heap. The envie of the world is dead! I've seen fhe foreign born stock shiting openly on the streets of Cologne!

It is easy to install steering pump pulley on the water pump. Same bolt hole pattern. I was cautiosm but I by mistake put one water pump pulley screw to secure the st. pump pulley and destroyed the belt in seconds: that screw jammed the pulley. And the presence of the spacer behind the st. pump pulley! Childish engineering! 
Over 20 defects found in the first year of Westy ownership made me come to a decision not to buy any German made vehicle. Cars I bought later were all Sofia's. She loved VW because she didn't work on them.

Have great days ahead.   Ark   

----- Original Message ----- 
 From: Bryan Belman 
To: Arkady Mirvis 
Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 10:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] Here and there

Hi Ark, great read as always.  A friend of mine did the MB import thing about 2 years ago.  I to thought it was crazy to do this.

His dad did all of the research and after purchasing the car from the factory in Stuttgart, DE, my friend George did the trip over to Germany with his folks for a week to pick up the car and drive around.  Then his parents flew back to USA and he stayed another week to deal with customs to load the car into container for shipping to USA.

He is a Jewish guy and does follow the jewish way.  If it were not a GOOD DEAL, he would not be doing it. I never asked the price, but I am sure it was a good deal.  I feel I am cheaper then cheap when it comes to most things, so I guess that really has nothing to do with being jewish, really.  It is the hissitic jewish ones that give that religion a bad name I think.

Anyway, I think exporting a car directly from DE to US is still cheaper then buying it here, but I am sure it was part of the over all adventure to do this trip as well, for them to buy the car from the factory.

I too saw many people at the AutoStadt in Wolfsburg going up the stairs to get the plates for the new car they had ordered directly from the factory.  they were making VW Polo and Varient's when I did the assembly line tour the 4 hours that I was at the factory and musium.
I would love to go back another time when I have 2 weeks to explore more of the country side.

Bryan Belman, Pt. Pleasant, NJ
04 Jetta Wagon TDI PD, 100hp, 5sp -- running :<)
92 Jetta 1.6 Eco-Turbo Diesel, 5sp -- running :<)
82 Diesel Westy 1.9NA -- running :<)
70 Type 1 stock Beetle -- Not running :<( 

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From: Arkady Mirvis <arkadymirvis at gmail.com>
To: vwdiesel at vwfans.com
Sent: Fri, August 20, 2010 4:31:12 PM
Subject: [Vwdiesel] Here and there

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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