1200, how miniscule. :biggrin: Speaking of the WW Thing. It was modelled after the WW11 type 82 Kuebelwagen (I use the ue because I don't have an umlaut on my keyboard., or Bucket car, which was built by VW.

I once had an original 1961 Beetle, 1100CC I believe. I also had a 1973 Super Beetle rebuilt by my brother with the engine rebuilt in Bonner's Ferry by a VW engine specialist. I also had a 1974 camper van. :biggrin: :mrgreen:

Did your 61 have a crash box tranny?

I think I'm partial to the oval window beetles. I believe '57 was the last year for ovals. Very nice.

I always get a kick out of reading the specs for those old beetles. 35hp! Whoohoo!!! :mrgreen:

I once had a chance to buy a '57 karmann ghia (hardtop). It was an amazing deal. I think the guy wanted $3500, it was in a barn just outside Calgary. Everything perfectly original and nearly mint (a few rough edges but really quite amazing for original). Only thing that had been done to it was it had been converted from 6v to 12v. I had to pass on it; something like that really deserves a garage, unfortunately at the time I had no garage. (Soon that will change :mrgreen: )



You don't need one (on your keyboard that is). If you use alt char codes you can make do. See: --> Kübelwagen.

What you do is you hold down your alt key, and while doing so, type in (on your keypad) the number 129. Alt-129 gives you the umlaut.

Here is a page of other alt char codes....

http://www.xs4all.nl/~wjsn/tekst/altknop.htm

How nice ...This was once a reefing forum and now its turned into a cars(particularly VW) forum.

This thread seemed to be good for going off on an irrelevant tangent to pad up post counts. :eek: I was just keepin' the streak alive. :biggrin:

I'm not allowed to talk about VW's??? :redface: I won't anymore, sorry. But then you have to figure out a different (irrelevant) tangent to go off on that you can use to pad YOUR post count :razz: :wink: :mrgreen:

Good. BTW, what type did you have? I had 2 bugs, damn heaters never worked. :rolleyes:

I've only had Rabbits and Passats (and I wish it was only the heater that didn't work). Oh, I guess there was a Golf GTI in there once for about a year. :rolleyes: With air-cooled I can talk the talk but I don't walk the walk.

Actually the reefing forum was at the top of the other page. You must have missed it :wink:

And keeping on track with the aquarium related things in the lounge, ever seen a car turned into an aquarium?? I think it may have even been a volkswagen. I can't find the link tho. Dang.

I have a Jetta. The heater is great, you can probably heat soup with it. The car has been good to me, although I had to get a new battery today.

I had a teacher in high school who drove his Thing to work.

I'm guessing one would need a LOT of silicone to seal the doors and stuff!!

Maybe a project for monster garage...