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Re: [T3] Car shopping


On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 18:31, Keith Park wrote:
> REALLY??
> 
> Here in the Northeast only about 10%, maybe less were Automatics... they
> were a rarity indeed and those that were sold usually died long before the
> Standards from the extra load on the engine.  Perhaps this is a regional
> thing?
> 
I think it is the way the cars were driven, as to survival rate. In the
northeast, there is a lot of stop and start driving. Here in the
mid-west, and west, It is mostly open road driving. Not particularly
hard on transmissions.

-- 
Russ Wolfe
'66 FB MT (It drove)
'71 FB AT 
'65 Bug (not running)
russw@classicvw.org
http://www.classicvw.org



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