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Date:         Tue, 10 Apr 2001 10:10:32 EDT
Reply-To:     KENWILFY@AOL.COM
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         KENWILFY@AOL.COM
Subject:      Re: Propane / Natural gas power [was RE: re. curious item on ebay]
Comments: To: vanagon@volkswagen.org
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I was looking through a VW history book a few years ago and noticed a Kubelwagen (looks like our "Thing") with a big hump in the hood. I was curious about this feature and was amazed to read that during WWII when the Germans started experiencing shortages in oil and fuel they began to fuel some of their vehicles by burning wood! Actually they would set up a small stove somewhere in the vehicle and burn the wood. The gasses coming off of the wood are combustible and they would route these to the carburator and power the car this way. However, as David noted with propane, the wood burning gases used as fuel would give you very little power and was a very poor way to fuel a vehicle (I think when the Germans got to this point they might have started to realize that the 1000 year reign was going to be slightly shorter than they had hoped :-).

PS I hope this doesn't give those folks who have been toying with the idea of putting a wood stove in their Vanagon for heat any more ideas :-)

Thanks, Ken Wilford John 3:16 www.vanagain.com Phone: (856)-765-1583 Fax: (856)-327-2242


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