Date:         Sun, 12 May 2002 19:58:42 +0200
Reply-To:     Robert Steven Fish <fish@SALZBURG.CO.AT>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Robert Steven Fish <fish@SALZBURG.CO.AT>
Subject:      Re: The spirit of the original Beetle Lives
Comments: To: Chris Stann <ChrisS@INFORMS.COM>
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it is 639 pounds (see clipped info below)

This info is from another page, which shows this "L-1" cruising on the
autobahn, in front of a big Eurovan... looks really futuristic.

http://www.vwvortex.com/news/04_02/04_16/index.shtml

I want one of these cars too, as a fourth car, just for driving between say,
Wolfsburg and Hannover... but seeing as I cannot even afford the ProjektZwo
driving lights for my Vanagon, I will probably not be able to participate in
the "group order" of L-1s that the list is planning.

In the meantime, if anyone can get me that "flat-top steering wheel" I would
be pretty excited to install that in my Vanagon!!


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The 'one-liter car' is powered by a single-cylinder diesel engine located in
the mid-engined position ahead of the rear axle and combined with an
automated direct-shift gearbox. The crankcase and cylinder head are of
aluminum, using a monobloc construction principle. A direct-injection,
naturally aspirated diesel, with a capacity of 0.3 liter, it develops 6.3 kW
(8.5 bhp) at 4000/min and is equipped with an advanced high-pressure
pump-injector fuel supply system. Despite these modest figures the car is
surprisingly lively thanks to its weight of only 290 kilograms (639 lb.).
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Robert S. Fish
Salzburg, Austria
1987 Wolfsburg Vanagon 2.1 GL Weekender
1987 Golf Cabriolet
1991 Golf

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Stann" <ChrisS@INFORMS.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 9:03 PM
Subject: Re: The spirit of the original Beetle Lives


> >True, but there's not all that much of them...I wonder what the overall
> >weight is?
>
> They mention that it weighs about as little as a touring motorcycle.  I
> would guess about or less than 800 lbs.
>
>
>
> Chris.
>
> '85 Westy complete with:
> hot tub
> Peta Wilson
> power pop-top
> purple skylight
> Hugh Hefner bath robe and pipe
> HMG 50 Cal mounted in the doorway
>