Date:         Wed, 26 Jun 2002 20:48:25 +1200
Reply-To:     Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
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From:         Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject:      Re: Car's People Love Most
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>There is nothing new about that concept.  Many moons ago, more than thirty,
>Road and Track had an article about a guy who converted a sunroof Beetle to
>run on water.  There was not much to the conversion: he raised the intake
>and exhaust above the waterline, hung a prop to the ass end through the hand
>crank hole, opened the sunroof, closed the doors then drove it into the
>water.  Once he was underway, the front wheels turned into rudimentary, but
>effective, rudders.  The sunroof was his flying bridge.  He was trying to
>make a point about the integrity of the Beetle's design and, I guess, turn a
>few heads.

Back in the 70s a Beetle took part in a boat race ascross the Irish
Sea.  It made it... hope they hosed it out well afterward!
--
Andrew Grebneff
165 Evans St, Dunedin 9001, New Zealand
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut