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Old 05-12-2011, 05:27 PM   #130 (permalink)
Christ
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Originally Posted by Dave's Civic Duty View Post
Was it a local Pa. car? I was looking on ebay at the same era Golf wanted 1500 but bring your own trailer, massive amounts of rust thru everywhere. It would need to be taken apart & mig weld patched. Rear quarters, bottom of doors gone, holes in floor, the VW was from Pontiac Mi.

Any rust concerns w yours?

Are you going to get into running WVO or BioD?

Thanks,
Dave
It has rust, but I don't have any structural concerns, at least yet. Seems merely cosmetic, thus far. More than likely, the body will rot, and I'll buy/build/whatever a streamlined trike, or just find another chassis to swap the diesel into.

Emissions be damned, I can't see how my 60mpg of soot or whatever is any more harmful than your (not you) 15-25mpg of carbon, nitrogen, what have you...

Mine was a ny car, afaik... Haven't done a vin check tho, and no history on it, just a clean title. I got lucky to get it. I still don't think the guy had a clue what it was worth.

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Get your kicks,
while getting 56!
Let's save that for 66, shall we? Due time, my friend.

At some point, sure will run bio, probably even wvo... Really like the multi fuels approach, including used lubricant oils. Again, time will tell.
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