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Subject:Re: Electric Powered auxiliaries
From:James <jk_eaton@HOTMAIL.COM>
Date:Thu, 23 Jul 2015 21:57:54 -0400

Amusing side note on electric radiator fans - we were on holidays in France last month, and my 11 year old and I noticed an antique car dealer - hard to miss the pristine late '50s MGA sitting in the shop window!  It had exactly one upgrade in its otherwise completely authentic restoration - in front of the radiator was a modern pusher radiator fan from a late model Peugeot or Citroen, which the owner of the shop said was to cope with city driving, when the belt-driven fan was inadequate!

James
Ottawa, ON

> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 13:26:23 -1000
> From: scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM
> Subject: Re: Electric Power Steering
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> 
> 
> Hardly any cars use a fan belt-driven radiator fan anymore..
> Even vanagons don't....starting in 1982 actually, the first water-cooled
> vanagon ..82 Diesel Vanagon.
>

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